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- From: jmartens@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey D Martens)
- Subject: Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.012108.602@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- References: <1992Nov12.163410.12678@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:21:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.163410.12678@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- >Flame me all you want, but if some obscure UK language developed 20
- >years ago can make it into a comp.lang group, why is basic still shit-upon
- >and relegated to the status of an alt group? (alt.lang.basic)?
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- Sounds to me as though BASIC's getting a little more respect than
- it deserves. Perhaps there's something at least marginally
- interesting about pop. You can't honestly say that about BASIC,
- now, can you?
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