From: bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com   
      
   Chris F Clark  writes:   
      
   > ...In PL/I, the language has many keywords, but [almost] none of   
   > them are reserved, ...   
      
   What are the exceptions?  And why do they exist?   
      
   - Bob   
   [PL/I is supposed to have no reserved words at all.  The idea was that it was   
   a large   
   language, many programmers wouldn't know all of it, and they wanted to avoid   
   the COBOL   
   problem of unknown reserved words breaking programs. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)