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

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From: Jay Maynard
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 17:36

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In article <BRUCE.94Nov21152401@iasc3.scm.liv.ac.uk>,
 <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
>It isn't.  It just happens that a scheme-like language is nicer as the
>low level interface.

IYHO.

>  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.

Scheme, and other languages with Lots of Irritating Spurious Parentheses,
are truly bletcherous. Even if you offer translators, chances are that
people will still have to resort to Scream to do some things.

Dammit, people, you're doing Unix. Why not _do_ Unix? Like it or not, the
people who will flock to YAFAUC (for that's what the Hurd is, at this point)
are going to be Unix weenies...who, generally, like C and hate LISP.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu   | adequately be explained by stupidity.
      8 November 1994: It's the guns, stupid! (Thanks, America...)

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