Re: Why not BASIC ? (was Re: GNU Script ...)

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From: Paul Shirley
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 18:03

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ralex@world.std.com "Aleksey Y Romanov" writes:

>Hi,
>
>IMHO:
>
>I am wondering why BASIC married with shared libs is out of consideration
>as developer level interface ?  For example, application developer can 
		<SNIP>

Because for religious reasons the entire Un*x community will refuse to use
it. (In fact they won't even look at it..so it will die young...)

Because BASIC has no consistently followed standard, everyone is free to
pick a version that backs up their own preconcieved prejudices. I expect
to see a long, illinformed flaming thread start up :-)

I like (better versions of) the language, but I certainly would not use
it for anything I might need to port from machine to machine! (its often
quicker to convert BASIC into C then BASIC into BASIC)

-- 
Paul Shirley: Coffee Hunter Extreme

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