Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tronsbox!bleys
From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaBasic
Message-ID: <2678120a-219d.5comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 15 Jun 90 02:00:44 GMT
References: <1930@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <1990Jun14.042521.12222@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <28196@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dill@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Peter
Dill) writes:
>   Both Pascal and BASIC are totally lame languages and just encourge the
>new user to waste time on them. As much as I like it, compiled C might be too

While Pascal and Basic don't afford the flexibility and power of C, they ARE
the languages taught to kids in our schools, and therefore the languages most
casual programmers are gonna be comfortable with.  If AmigaBasic wasn't such
a buggy bugger, and if the interface wasn't mired in the muck, I wouldn't
have bothered to consider C, and I >am< a programmer.  I use EasyTrieve Plus
(a 4GL report language) and COBOL (ugh) on a mainframe all day, and I
learned Basic, Fortran, and a little PL1 in school.  Learning C >just< to
write some toys for Ami is a bit much.

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