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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How do we change the scheduler? (Was Re: Multitasking at home...)
Message-ID: <10635.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 23 Jan 91 01:54:00 GMT
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Quoted from <42858@ut-emx.uucp> by awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels):
> BASIC is NEVER the language of choice.  Maybe you should advise Microsoft to
> stop selling their high-end BASIC development systems.

    It was interesting to read a claim by Gates (sp?) once that he could
    implement anything (my memory is vague) in BASIC faster than anyone
    else who used any other language.

    Did anyone ever take him up on that?
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*** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG.        jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
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