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- From: jskaggs@slate.mines.colorado.edu (JoJo was a man...)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop,alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.023350.96536@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 02:33:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.163410.12678@julian.uwo.ca> <1992Nov13.003414.17585@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BxoIzG.H94@access.digex.com>
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- In article <BxoIzG.H94@access.digex.com> bruceg@access.digex.com (Bruce Garrett) writes:
- >
- > Every now and then some idiot asks me why I stick with Basic and not
- >learn to use "a Real(tm) language like [insert name of Real Language here]"
- >and I respond politely that I'd rather swim in a pool full of rabid weasels.
- >I have deadlines to meet. If I wanted to spend my time generating or
- >maintaining tens of thousands of lines of obscure obtuse and hard to debug
- >source code I'd go work at a University or for the Government or somewhere I
- >didn't have to show a profit for my time spent.
- >
- > IF BasicKnowledge%(Opinion$) < 0 THEN Opinion$ = ""
- >
- >-Bruce Garrett
- Well said. Basic, like any other language, can produce excellent
- results, IF the programmer knows what he (or she) is doing. It just
- happens to be easier for a poor programmer to write bad code using basic
- than it is for the same lousy programmer to write bad code in Pascal.
- Flexibility is also Basic's strength. You can force Basic to do things
- that Pascal, Modula, or Fortrash just will not do.
-
- As for my own personal programming in basic, I just won a
- competition pot on by the Forging Industry Education and Research
- Foundation with a project I did incorporating a QuickBasic program which
- evaluates the effects of friction during metal forming processes. The
- program is tight (under 2,000 lines), and incorporates VGA Graphics to
- produce research quality graphs. Not bad for a silly undergrad, huh?
-
- -Joe Skaggs
-
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