Re: The Nerd Quotient

From: Karl Johanson (karljohanson_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:40:22 GMT

"Steve Turner" <srturner1@spammers_die.net> wrote in message
news:qeh8s0dff1l6afi2qigil56k3hfc2l35mh@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:18:57 GMT, "Karl Johanson"
> <karljohanson@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>"Ron Jones" <ron@ronjones.org.uk> wrote in message
>>
>>> You could also argue that BASIC is interpreted, and all the rest are
>>> compiled - even assembly needs compiling to calculate the jumps.
>>
>>My copy of QBASIC has a compiler.
>
> As does mine. And all the macho-nerd proclamations about "real men's"
> programming languages notwithstanding, I'll bet more functional
> programs are written in BASIC than everything else put together.

I think it tends to be a matter of some comparing the latest upgrade of
some language (with a large library of routines), to an old version of
basic they used in the 80s. There are many programs I wouldn't attempt
on basic, but I still use it for some tasks.

Karl Johanson

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