Re: I have no programming experience. Would you recommend C?


"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Malcolm McLean said:
"Chris Hills" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Most of my work is in high integrity systems, embedded systems etc. I
have worked on many systems and several languages but only once had to
use BASIC on a commercial system.

I am not a Harvard alumnus so I've no real interest in defending their
reputation. But don't dis BASIC.

I don't think he was dissing it. But anyway it wasn't claimed that Harvard
invented BASIC. The claim was only that Microsoft's implementation of it
was written there. BASIC itself was invented at Dartmouth College, I
believe, by Kemeny and Kurtz.

Chris Hills disses everything. Harvard, me, Oberon. Now Basic.
I am Basic implementor, so I will defend my language against these attacks.

I went to have a look. Presumably the .exe extension means it's for MS-DOS
or Microsoft Windows. And no source, so even if I were using Windows I'd
have to trust the program. Oh well, so much for that idea.

I know. It is completely irritating. I was going to release the source but
someone threatened to strip out the Basic and replace it with Ruby
interpreter. The whole point of the program is to show off the BASIC
interpeter in all its glory, so I couldn't let that happen.

Maybe I should have written it in Java?


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