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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Re: structured assembler (BASIC)
Message-ID: <1580@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 10:49:25 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1580
Posted: Sat Mar 22 10:49:25 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Mar-86 00:24:00 EST
References: <443@3comvax.UUCP> <7900003@ztivax.UUCP> <153@crin.UUCP>
Reply-To: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Organization: Georgia College Of Universal Knowledge
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Keywords: BASIC

In article <153@crin.UUCP> tombre@crin.UUCP (Karl Tombre) writes:
>In article <7900003@ztivax.UUCP> david@ztivax.UUCP writes:
>>Basic forces you to build something sans data strcutures, sans control
>>structures, pure vomit.
>
>No, it does not force you, only makes it easy to construct such vomit.

  I am sorry.  But any language that does not allow parameter passing
has something seriously wrong with it.  Even most assemblers give you
some 'ram it on the stack and call' stuff.
  (From a former, self-taught BASIC programmer who has seen the light)

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