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- From: stevet@bright.net (Steve Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:50:07 GMT
- Organization: BrightNet
- Message-ID: <4ena4c$6q1@brutus.bright.net>
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- In <4eiogb$cas@hasle.sn.no>, (balchen@sn.no (Jens Balchen Jr.))
- wrote:
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- >ay@warpsoft.com (Albert Yarusso) decided to share with us the
- >infinite reservoirs of wisdom:
-
- >>Uhh, because it _is_ BASIC?? Just as Visual C++ is C++!
-
- >You missed my point - Visual Basic isn't BASIC. It is based on
- >the Basic language, but no more. It's like saying Delphi is
- >Pascal, which is not true.
-
- *THE* Basic language? No such thing!
-
- There are a gazillion different BASIC languages, each with their own
- little extensions to make the language more useful, but also serve to
- make it virtually impossible to move anything but the most rudimentary
- of programs from one platform to another.
-
- I agree with you that Visual Basic is not BASIC, because Visual Basic
- is a TOOL and BASIC is a language - but the language Visual Basic uses
- is BASIC - just as Delphi is a tool that uses the Pascal language.
-
- No, Visual BASIC is not the same interactive language that was
- developed to run on the terminals at Dartmouth. And the Object Pascal
- language that Delphi uses is not the same language Wirth used as a
- teaching language. Thank God! The language Wirth invented didn't even
- have file I/O.
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