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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Conversion of BASIC code to "C"
- Message-ID: <920@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:53:49 GMT
- References: <885@ulogic.UUCP> <728053861snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <728053861snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) writes:
- >What gives those early, crippled, versions of a language more right to be
- >called BASIC than later, less crippled, ones? As you say, there was no BASIC
- >standard even in the 'good' old days.
-
- They were there first? <g>
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- >So long as a modern language can still run programs written in the 'real'
- >language (with at least as much reliability as all the old variants) it has
- >every right to be called BASIC. If you don't wish to use the newer constructs
- >that's entirely your own decision.
-
- So if I decide to refer to "C++" as "C", because it can compile
- old C code, that would be all right by you?
-
- When a language becomes as different as the old basic and the new,
- the name should change. It really is not the same language any more!
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-
- -Richard Hartman
- hartman@ulogic.COM
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- Never speak in absolutes. It will always lead to trouble. <g>
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