Re: Basic questions

From: C Rode (crode_at_notmail.com)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:30:01 GMT

> >Basic programmers in general might be interested in Pascal as similar to
> >Basic but advocates of Pascal do not admit relation to the forerunner
> >Fortran.
>
> Actually Pascal was based on ALGOL, not FORTRAN.
>

Yeah, Basic is based on Fortran (of the 50's) and there is no similarity
between Pascal and Basic. Pascal is some magical floating nirvana that
transcends the need for high performance compilers...

Well, I like Pascal because of the Borland compilers.