Name: Anonymous 2014-12-20 10:36
"I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprises me."
Haskell has 21 reserved keywords that cannot be used as names for values or types. This is a relatively low number (Erlang has 28, OCaml has 48, Java has 50, C++ has 63—and Miranda has only 10), and keeping it low was a priority of the Haskell Committee.