Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Gaven Miller
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 00:12

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Max Bell (mbell@atheria.europa.com) wrote:

> They also weren't written by people who think Visual BASIC is comparable
> to C or Assembler as a programming language.  BASIC was invented as an
> instructional language to teach programming concepts and that is what it
> is best at.  The fact that it has become a GUI'fied application development
> language is rather revolting and a clear reflection of the decline of
> program quality during the reign of Microsoft.

"BASIC was invented as an instructional language to teach programming 
concepts"

I believe that was the reason Pascal was created.

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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