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It means D can do the same thing with more explanatory keywords, yet in 
a more concise way.

On 09/11/2011 7:46 PM, Caligo wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com <mailto:newshound2 at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
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>     On 11/9/2011 2:45 PM, Danni Coy wrote:
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>         how many keywords in D are needed because the preprocessor is
>         built into the
>         language itself?
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>     It's true, people forget about the preprocessor keywords when
>     counting C++ keywords.
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> You're right, I did forget about the preprocessor.  Besides the usual
> things in the header files, I always try to avoid macros.
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> There are about 20 directives, so that puts the keywords count for C++
> to 101.  It's still fewer than D.  Does that mean D is more complex than
> C++?
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> Python with 33, I think most would agree that is has a very consice
> grammer.
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