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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
  2. Path: xwing.xwing.org!matt
  3. From: matt@xwing.xwing.org (Matthew Busigin)
  4. Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
  5. Date: 10 Apr 1996 22:32:14 GMT
  6. References: <4icpp9$7hr@barad-dur.nas.com> <4imqe4$cj3@ping1.ping.be> <1996Mar23.224853.116513@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <4j52hn$ikb@news.ios.com> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960403112207.17337H-100000@bud.cc.swin.edu.au> <3164622D.6BC8982@dark.mountain.stronghold>
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  8. Organization: XWING Internet Service
  9. Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
  10. Message-ID: <dpo3xq.e7u@xwing.xwing.org>
  11.  
  12. Mr. Wizard (madscientist@dark.mountain.stronghold) wrote:
  13. : John Joseph Newbigin wrote:
  14.  
  15. : >  Now I would rather use BASIC than Pascal.  That must mean
  16. : > BASIC is not dieing either?
  17. : >  Newbs
  18.  
  19. : Definitely not. For example, PowerBasic is a full-featured 
  20. : programming language. It can be used to write "real" applications.
  21.  
  22. : -- 
  23. : --------------------------====<>====-----------------------------------
  24. : `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at
  25. : you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".'
  26. : (By Linus Torvalds)
  27. : --------------------------====<>====-----------------------------------
  28. : Why use Windows, since there is a door?
  29. : (By fachat@galileo.rhein-neckar.de, Andre Fachat)
  30. : --------------------------====<>====------------------------------------
  31.  
  32. --
  33.  
  34. Who said how GOOD of "real" applications (:
  35.  
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