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- From: tlhouse@nyx.cs.du.edu (fiver)
- Subject: Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.003414.17585@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 00:34:14 GMT
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- Basic is where it belongs, in the alt., just like you said .. I don't know
- from pop, but I *DO* know Basic is pretty much garbage when compared to
- other GOOD languages .. (I'm talking just normal, everyday basic, none of
- these silly basic compilers that look more like Pascal than Basic to me)
- .. (come to think of it, they aren't much good either) .. is there any
- *serious* development being done in Basic anymore? Not really .. if so,
- I'd like to know where .. anyway, if pop is like ProLog, then at least it
- can be expected to be a serious language for its field .. Basic was good,
- once, but its not anymore .. if this were the heyday of Basic, surely
- there would be a comp.lang.basic .. as for the pop/prolog/lisp family of
- languages, they are somewhat still in specialty use and haven't hit the
- general development arena heavily, so its more likely we'll see some
- "obscure" stuff here .. anyway, who cares? Just listen and learn about
- "pop" .. this has nothing to do with Basic anyway ..
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