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In article <Jul.31.23.14.44.1990.19677@galaxy.rutgers.edu> lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu.UUCP (Louie Crew) writes:
>>If you are writing programs
>>for commercial sale you shouldn't be using BASIC.  If not you still shouldn't
>>be using BASIC for anything but quick and dirty stuff.  If you feel you must
>>use BASIC then you shouldn't be protecting them but rather let others see the
>>actual code. 
>>D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid)     |
>
>I continue to make several thousand dollars a year on shareware programs 
>that I have written in BASIC, and I laugh at this kind of elitism all the
>way to the bank.  I am an English professor and I use spaghetti code to write 
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>programs more complicated and more useful than those of most computer science 
>graduates who pontificate these linguistic prejudices.  
>


	With new BASIC compiler like MicroSoft PDS, you can program really
big program without spaghetti code. With Version 7.0, exe generated are as
small as could be a C program. I think the choice of a language depand of
the kink of application you want to write. Accounting for one is easylly
done in BASIC because of string manipulation, text editor should be in C or
Pascal and operating system in C. Assembler should never be use (except for
special program like device driver) because it is to hard to maintain
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