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- From: David.Beasley@cm.cf.ac.uk (David Beasley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop,alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.125657.19390@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 12:56:55 GMT
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- Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff
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- 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)?
-
- Well, LISP and FORTRAN are _even_older_, and PROLOG is about the same age.
-
- Pop has its own comp group for the simple reason that the people interested
- in the language were organised enough to issue a RFD and a CFV.
- If BASIC only has an alt group, perhaps its because the fans of BASIC
- havent got their act together yet ;-)
-
- Now, how would one of the people far better qualified than me like to explain
- to all these uninitiateds what pop is, and why its so good ... ?
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