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In article <pharris.714289533@tellus> pharris@roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au (Paul
Harris) writes:
+
+I am fairly new to NEWS, but to add to the argument being COMP.LANG.BASIC
+may help the acceptance of BASIC as a "true" programming language now that
+"proper subroutine calls" and structured programming are supported. In my
+simple view (and I have done little FORTRAN lately) FORTRAN and BASIC have
+moved toward common ground in some ways.
+
+Regards, Paul Harris
+PHarris@Roseworthy.Adelaide.EDU.AU

Let me do a major paraphrase of good old Abe Lincoln here.  At one of Abe's
speaking appearances someone asked why he doesn't just declare all slaves to
be free.  His response was to ask something like - "If I tell you a lambs tail 
is a leg, how many legs does a lamb have?"  The man responded with 5 and was
rebuffed with something to the effect that to say something is so does not make
it to be the truth.

We all hear people say that BASIC is NOT a "real" language.  That does not mean
that BASIC is NOT a REAL language when you get down to the truth - it just 
means the person who insists that BASIC is other than a real language is either
uninformed or narrow minded.  Likewise,  changing the name of this group to 
comp.lang.basic will not make BASIC any more or less a "real" language or be 
accepted (or not) as such.  The truth is - BASIC IS A REAL LANGUAGE.  Period, 
end of story.

     "Free your mind and the rest will follow."
                                               -En Vogue

Keith.
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