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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: basic
Message-ID: <198@desint.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 21:56:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 21:56:08 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 03:06:27 EST
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In article <228@spp2.UUCP> Jeff Hull writes:

>Just an opinion...
>anyone who ports BASIC to a UNIX system should be deleted from the
>net.  For those who have programs in BASIC which they need, there
>SHOULD be (but isn't as far as I know) a BASIC-TO-X translator (where
>X is C or Modula-2 or ...) and the BASIC source should then be
>trashed.

Have you ever seen the output of a Y-to-X translator?  Not a pretty sight,
especially to the person who gets stuck with maintaining the X code.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	First Systems Corporation
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