26 Mar
2002
26 Mar
'02
4:40 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Goodwin [mailto:acme_ent@bellsouth.net]
> For a while I used Turbo Basic under MS-DOS. It
was an
> incredible development environment... for a BASIC ... running
> under MS-DOS... Ok, so it was "passable." Still :)
No, it was incredible. Removing the constraints of
using
I wouldn't go that far. It was still a BASIC ;)
I like my HLLs to have _some_ structure.
line numbers was
a huge improvement on its own. Allowing variables local to a
function or
procedure was a nice bonus as well.
Right on both counts, there.
Turbo BASIC also has an interpretive mode.
I vaguely remember this, actually. It's been a while,
as I said.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'