allocate, deallocate, etc. vs. contains, extends, etc. Why?

a-/de-allocate is a command, so grammatically it would be imperative contains/extends just states a fact, thus indicative

Maybe this is related to the grammar (computer and English), but keywords like allocate, deallocate, open, close, and do are all things that occur at run time. Keywords like contains and extends control how the source code is organized and how data types are defined, things done at compile time. Was…

I first wondered about compiler grammar many years ago when we got a machine with a French Algol compiler. Before it arrived we wondered if it would want us to say COMMENCE or COMMENCEZ instead of BEGIN. But the machine had to be treated more impersonally; the word was COMMENCER.

I did not know that such varieties of programming languages were available. They were, and here is an example. BOUCLE : EPS1 :=T1 ; NITER :=0 ; SI A[N-2]=0 ALORS DEBUT SI (ABS(S)+ABS(P)=0) ALORS DEBUT S:=0.1 ; P:=0.2 ; FIN FIN ; ITER : NITER :=NITER+1 ; SI NITER > …

This is extremely cursed, but you are free to do things like this with a preprocessor: #define programm program #define abend end #define keine_implizit implicit none #define drucken print programm pruefen keine_implizit drucken *, "hallo welt" abend programm pruefen Compile with gfortran -o pr…

It’s probably the comments and quoted strings that will remain untouched even after such a translation, regardless of whether the compiler itself is capable of handling keywords in any of the language variants that it recognizes, because those elements express ideas in a complex natural language.

[image] jeff.irwin: #define programm program #define abend end #define keine_implizit implicit none #define drucken print And if you really want to have some fun: #define function program #define start end #define program module #define subroutine function (I have no idea if this would actu…

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certik January 11, 2024, 4:34pm 6

There is also import, use which happen at compile time but do not use “s”.

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Verb conjugation of keyword

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