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From: tynor@atlanta.twr.com (Steve Tynor)
Subject: Re: Rapid Prototyping + statically-typed OOPLs?
In-Reply-To: Ian.Mitchell@sunderland.ac.uk's message of Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:06:34
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In article <Ian.Mitchell.241.000C1C6A@sunderland.ac.uk> Ian.Mitchell@sunderland.ac.uk (Ian Mitchell) writes:

| I think there is some confusion here as to my use of the
| word "terseness". I was thinking along the lines of the
...
| In other words a terse language is a language with very few
| keywords (C has 32, C++ has about 48).

Um. Eiffel has only 49 reserved words.  Does that mean that C++ and
Eiffel are equally "terse"? :-)

Steve