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From: tcm@srhqla.UUCP (Tim Meighan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BASIC Programming Group
Message-ID: <676@srhqla.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 23:50:48 GMT
Reply-To: tcm@srhqla.UUCP (Tim Meighan)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <1277@apss.apss.ab.ca> jhp@apss.ab.ca
(Herb Presley, Emergency Planning Officer) writes:

>1) I am NOT interested in hearing from snotty-nosed elite programming types
>   with their remarks, such as "Oh gosh, a dinosaur, someone who's still
>   interested in BASIC!" or, "Didn't you know that BASIC programming is only
>   used by people under 12 years of age?" or, "Why don't you learn PASCAL or
>   COBOL instead?"

Well, THIS snotty-nosed elite programming type wishes to state, for the record,
that anyone who doesn't believe that BASIC can be used for some serious 
programming should take a look at the Microsoft BASIC compiler for
IBM-PCs.

One of the first languages I learned was BASIC, back in 1975.  It was 
nothing like this!  This version has stuff I never dreamed you could do
with the language.

I'm not saying that BASIC can do everything.  But if it suits your programming
needs, BASIC is as good a language as any other.  The important thing is to
write good code!

Tim Meighan
SilentRadio

"LET X=X."   -Laurie Anderson