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Article #6906Re: BASIC is the KING of computer languages ! ! ! !
From: cr88192
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:28
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:28
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"Hans-Marc Olsen" <mallet_riveter@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message news:e1cc8b8.0411172343.53baef6c@posting.google.com... > The best programs ever where written in BASIC. > > BASIC is great! apart from a few niches (eg: vb), basic has largely fallen into disuse. basics tend to lack features, eg, like heap allocated memory, pointers, ... which are imo fairly important (dunno about vb, haven't checked this). similarly, for what basic's string handling does well, some other things are not so well. personally I wouldn't want to use it, but it is probably that I am stuck in the world of c, but feeling the pull of higher-level languages (I liked scheme, though eventually gave it up due to issues not-entirely related to the language...).
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