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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: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 17:31:24 -0500
  6. Organization: alt.destroy.the.earth
  7. Message-ID: <316ED9BC.4164E434@dark.mountain.stronghold>
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  15. Sean Aschen wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > On Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:58:37 -0600, "Mr. Wizard"
  18. > <madscientist@dark.mountain.stronghold> wrote:
  19. > 
  20. > >John Joseph Newbigin wrote:
  21. > >
  22. > >>  Now I would rather use BASIC than Pascal.  That must mean
  23. > >> BASIC is not dieing either?
  24. > >>  Newbs
  25. > >
  26. > >Definitely not. For example, PowerBasic is a full-featured
  27. > >programming language. It can be used to write "real" applications.
  28. > >
  29. > Don't know about PowerBasic, but Visual Basic is a piece of shit.
  30. > 
  31.  
  32. Yes, I agree VB is shit, but PowerBasic is quite different.
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