>
> >The main reason that *I* am aware of with people being down on BASIC is
> >that it, in a sense, encourages writing spagetti code (probably with the
> >inappropriate use of the GOTO statement.)
>
> It is possible to write really bad code in any language, and really
> good code in any language. I've seen (and written) some very modular
> stuff in the past in BASIC. I've also seen some of the worst damn
> stuff written in C or PASCAL...
>
> I'm sorry, but I truly believe that anyone who looks down on BASIC
> because the code *can* be spaghetti-code cannot be considered a real
> programmer in my book...
>
> My US$.02
>
> Megan Gentry
Agreed. But coming out of DEC with Basic Plus and other DEC basics
makes you forget just how bad the A$ environment is.
My worst, er first experience with Basic was an HP2000. I liked computers
but found the ASR33 a pain. Next course was Fortran on IBM punch
cards. Ugh.
Working with the single character variable names was a pain.
Editing was awful on the teletypes. (retype line number and reenter).
I'd have killed for EDT line mode.
I found that DEC's basics were quite nice to work with. DEC also had
a nice development environment as well with good tools.
Bill
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Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 11:09:48 GMT