Re: Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum


"Randy Howard" <randyhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
So basically, what we have above, is you making a completely
unfounded assumption, and jumping from that to a bunch of false claims
about portability, the C language itself, C authors, the wonderfulness of
BASIC as a portable language relative to others, and across the board,
pretty much all of them are wrong. Congratulations.

Check out MiniBasic.
It will run anywhere a conforming C program can be executed (the intepreter is in ANSI C), so it is as widely implemeted as C. However, except for rounding differences caused by floating point hardware, results are exactly the same on all platforms.
So it is more portable than ANSI C. And it is far more wonderful and flexible because the interpreter is simple enough for you to extend it with a few hours of programming effort.

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