Re: Pascal to Basic converter

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From: Randall Leroy Speaks
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <5dvf62$egf2@venus.compulink.gr>,
Michael Iordanakis <xamogela@compulink.gr> wrote:
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>Pascal is far more advanced than basic. This means that lots of pascal
>procedures, functions or statements are not easily converted to Basic
>because machine code must be used. 

a math professor had a wonderful term for a statement like this...
a WAG.  how can you possibly plop in here among educated people and
expect to justify such a presumtuous claim? if you had said C, or C++
you would have been much more credible.  i wouldn't be surprised if you
think basic is still line numbers.

by the way, WAG stands for Wild-Ass Guess

cheers,
Randy

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From: rls2497@unix.tamu.edu (Randall Leroy Speaks)
Subject: Re: Pascal to Basic converter
Date: 1997/02/14
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