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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Conversion of BASIC code to "C"
- Message-ID: <909@ulogic.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:41:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan14.000132.1427@microsoft.com> <885@ulogic.UUCP> <1jutuaINNrop@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1jutuaINNrop@tamsun.tamu.edu> pinky@tamu.edu (The Man Behind The Curtain) writes:
- >
- >At any rate, I could probably read and understand most variations
- >of Basic, though you might choose to call them something else.
- >If I didn't know Pascal, on the other hand, I would be unlikely
- >to understand what someone else had written.
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- No. Actually I think you would just think it another dialect
- of (new) Basic. Many structured languages are fairly easy to read with
- a little experience from others. You might not be able to WRITE in it
- w/o getting a few dozen messages from the compiler though.
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- -Richard Hartman
- hartman@ulogic.COM
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