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From: rab@cdcvax.UUCP (Roger Bielefeld)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: New flame
Message-ID: <115@cdcvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Sep-83 13:02:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 16 13:02:40 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Sep-83 19:49:54 EDT
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Organization: CWRU Computer Science, Cleveland
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Glad there's someone else out there who appreciates REAL programming!
I mean, hey, BASIC's not exactly assembler, but you can't have EVERYTHING
all the time, can you?  Who needs all thoso wimpy control structures
when the almighty GOTO is always right there when you need it?  No muss,
no fuss.  No restrictions to get in the way.

And why hassle with pointers or  some such nonsense when you can PEEK
and POKE at will?  And who needs data structures anyway?  And why should
I have to bother declaring variables (yeeccchh!!) before I use them?
What a waste of time and energy!

My software engineering professor said it all a few years ago when
he spoke of the "KISS" philosophy: Keep It Simple, Stupid.  Hey, how
much simpler than BASIC can you get?


              Hmmm... let's see now.. I'm supposed to put one of
              these gizmo's in here, right?        :-)

		Roger "Let's Get Back to Basics" Bielefeld
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