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From: perry@heurikon.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
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Subject: Re: basic
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 15:35:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 15:35:02 1984
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> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 					Blecsed Be,
> 
> jhull@spp2.UUCP				Jeff Hull
> trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP		13817 Yukon Ave.
> 					Hawthorne, CA 90250

As far as opinions go, this one  should  have been kept in the mind that
spawned it. I wonder if the author of the above is merely a mental light
weight imitating the likes  of    Dijkstra.   In any case to denigrate a
person's good efforts based purely upon their field of endeavor (in this
case the language they have ported)  is tantamount to racism and indica-
tive of a pitifully small mind.

						     Perry S. Kivolowitz