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  2. From: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks) 
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Conversion of BASIC c
  5. Message-ID: <11434.107.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
  6. Date: 21 Jan 93  4:23:00 GMT
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  9. Reply-To: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks) 
  10. Lines: 27
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  12. RMH> I am tired of hearing this!  I don't care what they claim, but that
  13. RMH> new language with functions, subroutines, etc is NOT BASIC!  They've
  14. RMH> reinvented Algol or Pascal, or something, but >BASIC< is the language
  15. RMH> with numbers on every line that you find on C64, Atari 800 and old
  16. RMH> Apples.
  17. RMH> You know, the one that already has billions of variants even before
  18. RMH> trying to bring in an entirely new structured language and giving it
  19. RMH> the same name?  To call the new language by the same name is a
  20. RMH> disservice
  21. RMH> to everyone still making use of the real one.
  22.  
  23. RMH>                -Richard Hartman
  24. RMH>                hartman@uLogic.COM
  25.  
  26.    What should we call a language that will compile old BASIC code and yet
  27. adds functions, subroutines, etc., which still looks a lot like BASIC but
  28. with added flexibility? How about BASIC++ ? =)
  29.  
  30. David
  31. david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us
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