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From: rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Who uses BASIC these days (for serious application writing)
Message-ID: <11581@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 06:27:54 GMT
Reply-To: rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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After graduating from a university (and using C and Pascal all the time)
I was surprised to find myself at a small software company that uses
BASIC for everything. I was happy I found them because I'd been
programming in BASIC since I was 15.

Occasionally it was a cause for embarassment because my friends were
all programming in C or something. But of course I know a lot of 
companies use BASIC, since I get the impression from ads and articles
that BASIC is not just for educational use.

So I was wondering, do you all know many companies or organizations
that use BASIC, and what is their rationale? Just simpler to code?
What about the generally chaotic nature of the language? Is is mostly
"structured" BASICs that are used?

-Thanks-

R. Chao
Oakland, CA