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From: goodwin@oyez.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
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Subject: Re: Languages
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In article <59196@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, jung@einstein.physics.buffalo.edu (Alexander Jung) writes...
>	I could not find any real superior construct in C (apart from strong
>typing) that is not included in Basic V. 
>But now closer to the points you make:
>- you claim that Basic is not structured at all; this is true for some old
>  standards (see C 64), but no longer for Basic V, which has all tha
>  capabilities of a modern structured language (do, while , repeat until, Proc,
>  Functions, local Variables...)

BASIC is not a fully structured language. It has IF-THEN-ELSE-ENDIF, CASE etc.
but it's missing the other part of structured languages - structured data
types.

Whenever data structures are manipulated in BASIC you'll see code like:

buffer%!0 = 1
buffer%!4 = 12
buffer%!8 = 14

which is not very readable. I'd use BASIC V if it had structured types, but it
doesn't. Hence I'll use either PASCAL or C. Since ANSI C Release 3 comes with a
much better support package, that's what I tend to use most.

Pete