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by neolog 1774 days ago
> As APL shows, you then need quite a large alphabet of symbols, though.

I count 71, which doesn't seem like a lot.
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still_grokking 1774 days ago
That's more than key-words in most languages, I think.
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scns 1774 days ago
Quick'n'dirty wetware lookup:

Go: < 30

C: ~ 31

C++: > 70

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neolog 1773 days ago
Python builtins (not even keywords): 68
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