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- From: elazzaro@symantec.com (Erin Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 19:27:48 GMT
- Organization: Symantec
- Message-ID: <4eba56$7jp@symiserver2.symantec.com>
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- In article <4e9oji$me5@news-2.csn.net>,
- charles stoyer <cstoyer@interpex.com> wrote:
- >BASIC stands for "Beginners All-purpose ? Interpretive Code"
- >and that scares the living hell out of me.
-
- And rightly, but that's not Visual Basic. BASIC is that garbage they tried
- to teach me in high school twenty years ago; Visual Basic bears very little
- relationship to it. It still won't do what I need to do, you understand.
- But rejecting it based on your old "Advanced BASIC" book just isn't
- justified.
-
- -Erin Lazzaro
-