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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Re: structured assembler (BASIC)
Message-ID: <1633@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Apr-86 17:26:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  6 17:26:20 1986
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In article <1209@unc.unc.UUCP> rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) writes:
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>>     Dartmouth BASIC isn't a real BASIC.
>
>huh?  not only is dartmouth basic A real basic, dartmouth basic is
>THE real basic.  the original basic was done at dartmouth (wasn't
>it?) back in the early 1960's.

   Dartmouth BASIC is compiled FORTRAN.  Ok, I know about FOCAL, but
Dartmouth BASIC shares the same philosophy.  It was designed as a teaching
language, and teaches the FORTRAN philosophy very well.  However, why
anyone would want to learn the FORTRAN philosophy, I don't know.
   Dartmouth BASIC was very good for what it was intended to do.  And I
would give anything for a MAT statement in Pascal.  But the BASICS that
grew out of it were filthy and vile.  And what it was intended to do is
no longer needed.

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