> Learning IF, FOR, RETURN is not hard. There are 20 words max to learn. That was true in the old days with C or Pascal, but it's not much the case any more.

> Learning IF, FOR, RETURN is not hard. There are 20 words max to learn. That was true in the old days with C or Pascal, but it's not much the case any more. Modern C++ has about 100 keywords [1]. Even Swift (Apple: "easy to learn") has about 100 reserved words. [1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keyword https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keyword [2]: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-reserved-Swift-keywords https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-reserved-Swift-keywords