Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"

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From: Steve Thomas
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:50

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In <4eiogb$cas@hasle.sn.no>,  (balchen@sn.no (Jens Balchen Jr.))
wrote:

>ay@warpsoft.com (Albert Yarusso) decided to share with us the
>infinite reservoirs of wisdom:

>>Uhh, because it _is_ BASIC??  Just as Visual C++ is C++!

>You missed my point - Visual Basic isn't BASIC. It is based on
>the Basic language, but no more. It's like saying Delphi is
>Pascal, which is not true.

*THE* Basic language?  No such thing! 

There are a gazillion different BASIC languages, each with their own
little extensions to make the language more useful, but also serve to
make it virtually impossible to move anything but the most rudimentary
of programs from one platform to another.

I agree with you that Visual Basic is not BASIC, because Visual Basic
is a TOOL and BASIC is a language - but the language Visual Basic uses
is BASIC - just as Delphi is a tool that uses the Pascal language.

No, Visual BASIC is not the same interactive language that was
developed to run on the terminals at Dartmouth. And the Object Pascal
language that Delphi uses is not the same language Wirth used as a
teaching language. Thank God! The language Wirth invented didn't even
have file I/O.

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Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:50:07 GMT
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