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- From: uesu03@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Lou Glassy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop,alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic?
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.022117.20428@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:21:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: coe.1992Nov13.022117.20428
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- It's easy to tip the baby out with the bathwater, especially
- with Basic, which is not a 'cool' language anymore (like C, Ada,
- etc.).
-
- Still, the development of Basic has not stood still. Witness
- TrueBasic, by the Dartmouth group that came out with the original
- Basic almost 30 years ago. TrueBasic could be chastened as
- 'looking like Pascal' [the cool language of the 1970s], but
- one can write good, structured code with it, to solve simple
- and small problems quickly.
-
- Lastly, Basic [in its various versions since the early 60s]
- has made computers and computing a lot more accessible to a lot
- more people than the other languages it ran beside.
-
- Is there a continuing niche for Basic? I think so. As long
- as you want a simple little language for prototyping small
- problems, the modern Basics can still hold their own, IMHO.
-
- [None of this is intended to denigrate Pop, which from what
- I've heard elsewhere, is an interesting tool for other things.
- Personally, I could care less about whether Basic gets a comp.*
- group or an alt.* group. I'm glad it has a group I can access,
- so I can see what people are doing with Basic these days.]
-
- Lou.
- --
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