Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!s3!robert From: robert@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (R.Meunier 8516) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: BASIC is not the problem! Message-ID: <2270@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Date: 1 Aug 90 14:44:51 GMT References: <4020@sonata> <1990Jul31.124048.19015@druid.uucp> Sender: root@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca Distribution: alt Organization: ireq Lines: 29 In article lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu.UUCP (Louie Crew) writes: >>If you are writing programs >>for commercial sale you shouldn't be using BASIC. If not you still shouldn't >>be using BASIC for anything but quick and dirty stuff. If you feel you must >>use BASIC then you shouldn't be protecting them but rather let others see the >>actual code. >>D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | > >I continue to make several thousand dollars a year on shareware programs >that I have written in BASIC, and I laugh at this kind of elitism all the >way to the bank. I am an English professor and I use spaghetti code to write ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >programs more complicated and more useful than those of most computer science >graduates who pontificate these linguistic prejudices. > With new BASIC compiler like MicroSoft PDS, you can program really big program without spaghetti code. With Version 7.0, exe generated are as small as could be a C program. I think the choice of a language depand of the kink of application you want to write. Accounting for one is easylly done in BASIC because of string manipulation, text editor should be in C or Pascal and operating system in C. Assembler should never be use (except for special program like device driver) because it is to hard to maintain -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Meunier Institut de Recherche d'Hydro-Quebec Ingenieur 1800 Montee Ste-Julie, Varennes Internet: robert@ireq.hydro.qc.ca Qc, Canada, J3X 1S1