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In article <1992Oct29.053402.9555@noao.edu> dkoski@noao.edu (David Koski) writes:
>Actually the best language ever made is BASIC.  It has no pointers, no
>unions, no structures, no var names larger than 2 chars, etc (this is
>referring to MS BASIC on my old trs-80 coco).  To top it all off, in
>extended basic, you actually had a line editor available!
>
>For you lisp fans who say that you don't have these fine features either,
>well, in BASIC, you can't have recursive funtions!  Top that!
>
>David Koski

Hey, I've done recursive programming in Basic (MS version 4? Trs-80 model 1)
All it takes is manually managing an array as a storage stack.

		Michael
(Besides, it lets you use more than two letters for a name, although
only the first two count. And, since it was interpreted, a given "next"
statement could match any "for" statement, depending on which goto you
took first! Great Fun!)
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