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  2. From: "Mr. Wizard" <madscientist@dark.mountain.stronghold>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
  5. Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:58:37 -0600
  6. Organization: alt.destroy.the.earth
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  14.  
  15. John Joseph Newbigin wrote:
  16.  
  17. >  Now I would rather use BASIC than Pascal.  That must mean
  18. > BASIC is not dieing either?
  19. >  Newbs
  20.  
  21. Definitely not. For example, PowerBasic is a full-featured 
  22. programming language. It can be used to write "real" applications.
  23.  
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  26. `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at
  27. you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".'
  28. (By Linus Torvalds)
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  30. Why use Windows, since there is a door?
  31. (By fachat@galileo.rhein-neckar.de, Andre Fachat)
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