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  1. Path: in1.uu.net!shore!news
  2. From: ay@warpsoft.com (Albert Yarusso)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
  5. Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:02:41 GMT
  6. Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
  7. Message-ID: <4egdqm$app@shore.shore.net>
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  12. balchen@sn.no (Jens Balchen Jr.) wrote:
  13. >Actually it's "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code".
  14. >But VB does not deserve the name BASIC. I can't understand why
  15. >the stupid masses still think of VB as BASIC.
  16.  
  17. Uhh, because it _is_ BASIC??  Just as Visual C++ is C++!
  18.  
  19.  ..Al
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  21.   \    /  Albert Yarusso, ay@warpsoft.com
  22.    \/\/arpSoft, Framingham, MA  508-875-6867
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