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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Subject: Re: basic
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 16:32:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 16:32:58 1984
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> Newsgroups: net.sources
> 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.

Similarly, those who use "dc", "bc", "awk", or shell scripts should be
deleted from the net; a C program should be written for every
calculation.  Does someone have a dc-to-C translator?  How about a
shell script-to-C translator?  It would save a hell of a lot of time
to do the conversion of my handy-dandy shell scripts.   )-:  :-)
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA
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