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Article #7008Re: Why not BASIC ? (was Re: GNU Script ...)
From: bruce
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 15:24
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 15:24
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>>>>> "Aleksey" == Aleksey Y Romanov <ralex@world.std.com> writes: > I am wondering why BASIC married with shared libs is out of > consideration as developer level interface? It isn't. It just happens that a scheme-like language is nicer as the low level interface. Developers will have a number of translators (or similar) available so that they can program in elisp, something Tcl-like (a procedural language), something C-like, etc., if they don't like scheme. The FSF project, assuming it works, certainly won't prevent people from programming in something that looks a lot like BASIC, should they wish to, but it won't stop the rest of us from using something better. > The procedural language has very substantial advantage - it is the > most natural way for human beings to describe its activities. Scheme can be procedural too. -- Bruce Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation bruce@liverpool.ac.uk University of Liverpool
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