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- From: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten)
- Subject: Re: The trouble with pointers.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.163914.15990@stb.info.com>
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- References: <1992Oct28.043124.24841@ads.com> <1992Oct28.185105.29857@cheshire.oxy.edu> <1992Oct29.053402.9555@noao.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:39:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct29.053402.9555@noao.edu> dkoski@noao.edu (David Koski) writes:
- >Actually the best language ever made is BASIC. It has no pointers, no
- >unions, no structures, no var names larger than 2 chars, etc (this is
- >referring to MS BASIC on my old trs-80 coco). To top it all off, in
- >extended basic, you actually had a line editor available!
- >
- >For you lisp fans who say that you don't have these fine features either,
- >well, in BASIC, you can't have recursive funtions! Top that!
- >
- >David Koski
-
- Hey, I've done recursive programming in Basic (MS version 4? Trs-80 model 1)
- All it takes is manually managing an array as a storage stack.
-
- Michael
- (Besides, it lets you use more than two letters for a name, although
- only the first two count. And, since it was interpreted, a given "next"
- statement could match any "for" statement, depending on which goto you
- took first! Great Fun!)
- --
- Michael Gersten michael@stb.info.com
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