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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!genesis.demon.co.uk!fred
- Subject: Re: Conversion of BASIC code to "C"
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- References: <885@ulogic.UUCP>
- Organization: BT
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:11:01 +0000
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- In article <885@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan14.000132.1427@microsoft.com> philco@microsoft.com (Phillip
- > Cooper) writes:
- >> In case you didn't realize
- >>it, BASIC is now fully structured (with functions, subroutines, etc..).
- >
- >I am tired of hearing this! I don't care what they claim, but that
- >new language with functions, subroutines, etc is NOT BASIC! They've
- >reinvented Algol or Pascal, or something, but >BASIC< is the language
- >with numbers on every line that you find on C64, Atari 800 and old Apples.
- >You know, the one that already has billions of variants even before
- >trying to bring in an entirely new structured language and giving it
- >the same name?
-
- What gives those early, crippled, versions of a language more right to be
- called BASIC than later, less crippled, ones? As you say, there was no BASIC
- standard even in the 'good' old days.
-
- >To call the new language by the same name is a disservice
- >to everyone still making use of the real one.
-
- So long as a modern language can still run programs written in the 'real'
- language (with at least as much reliability as all the old variants) it has
- every right to be called BASIC. If you don't wish to use the newer constructs
- that's entirely your own decision.
-
- Back in 1981 I was using a BASIC which supported multi line functions,
- ptocedures, local variables and recursion, REPEAT UNTIL loops etc. Any BASIC
- these days without such facilities isn't worth bothering about.
-
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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