Vb.net vs Fortran - keywords and reserved words

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You would know all of Fortran IV if you knew some 40 (just guessing) key words or "reserved" words like CONTINUE, DO, END, COMMON, EQUIVALENT, SIN, INTEGER, SUBROUTINE, etc. Does someone know this number more accurately? (Later, these words were no longer reserved.)

Does someone know the number of such key words or reserved words in VB.net? It has at least 35 modifiers for just subroutines. There might be probably 500+ keywords. This makes it nearly impossible for anyone to know all of VB.net unlike Fortran IV or 77.

What I have tried:

Searched on Internet. Lots of talk about there being no reserved words in Fortran. In other words you could write a statement like

SUBROUTINE = CONTINUE*SQRT(DO, COS) - END/REAL

That is not very interesting to me. I am trying to find out the number of such key words in Fortran and VB.net.

Posted 25-Aug-21 16:40pm

VBeginner.NET

Updated 25-Aug-21 19:48pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-25T19:48:00

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Of course not, and I am not programming in Fortran these days. I am just trying to compare the number of key words.

And Dave has given you the answer, or at least the means to get the answer.
Go to the link, and start counting. Then follow the links at the bottom and count those as well.
The you can compare them, which is simple

number you added up : zero

Posted 25-Aug-21 19:48pm

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VBeginner.NET 26-Aug-21 2:11am

That page seems to show 171 keywords. What about Fortran? Is there any similar page for Fortran?

OriginalGriff 26-Aug-21 2:24am

How many times do you have to be told that Fortran has no reserved words?
If you mean the number of words that a fortran compile is expected to understand, then a trivial google would have found you this: http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Keywords
But they aren't key words in the same way the VB ones are, they are not reserved in any way but "recognised by context".
Fortran is a very old language!

VBeginner.NET 26-Aug-21 4:02am

I must have been quite sleepy. I even saw this in a Google search but did not go to that page. At that time, I probably did not know that keywords is what I needed, not reserved words. But got it now.

Thanks for the help.

OriginalGriff 26-Aug-21 4:41am

You're welcome!

Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-25T17:52:00

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Keywords - Visual Basic | Microsoft Docs[^]

FORTRAN 77 doesn't have any reserved words, but that doesn't mean using any keywords is a good idea.

Posted 25-Aug-21 17:52pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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VBeginner.NET 26-Aug-21 0:38am

Of course not, and I am not programming in Fortran these days. I am just trying to compare the number of key words.

Maciej Los 26-Aug-21 5:16am

5ed!

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