What exactly is "vocabulary" 

Forum: U Chicago, Com Sci 221 old messages, autumn 2000
Re: Assignment #2, due 11 October (Mike O'Donnell)
Re: vocab (dave)
Date: 2000, Oct 10
From: Mike O'Donnell <odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu>

Is there any reason why no reference is made to the 'vocabulary' of a programming language? I'm not familiar with a technical meaning for ``vocabularly'' in the programming language business, and I don't find it in the index for the text. Perhaps you can explain your question a bit more. The intuitive analogy in programming languages to natural-language vocabulary is the set of keywords. For example, if and do are keywords in C and C++. Mike O'D.

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1. Untitled by dave, 2000, Oct 10

(_ Selection of symbols in C is rather arbitrary by Mike O'Donnell, 2000, Oct 10

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