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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
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Subject: BASIC
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 14:19:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 14:19:54 1986
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Summary: Programming in BASIC is alive and well.

I do all my development using the IBM BASIC Compiler v2.0.  The software
I write (psuedo-database and accounting) is reasonably fast, easy to maintain,
and easy to write.  And, folks pay $$$ for it.

A programmer I know says that the code I write using the new IBM BASIC
Compiler looks like PASCAL without all the semicolons.  I understand that
Microsoft's QuikBASIC (sp?) is almost identical (except that I can write 
bigger programs with less data and Microsoft allows smaller programs with
more data), except for the $300 price difference in their favor.  On the
other hand, I get ISAM with mine.

Global and local variables, common variable areas, callable subprograms, no
line numbers, and many other things make this a real language.  If anyone who
wishes to throw stones at the old BASIC Compiler, I'll join you.  But reserve
judgement on the new one until you play with it yourself!

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Mark D. Freeman                     Guest account at The Ohio State University
StrongPoint Systems, Inc.				    mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP
209 Olentangy Street					  Mdf@Ohio-State.CSNET
Columbus, OH  43202-2340		       Mdf%Ohio-State@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA
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