17 Aug
2001
17 Aug
'01
2:08 a.m.
Douglas Quebbeman skrev:
> But then is Pascal that bad?
Bad? Bad at what? bad *for* what?
We were discussing beginner's languages and alternative to BASIC.
Whenever I
think of BASIC, and I don't think this applies only to me, I
think
of a cosy 40-column TV screen on a micro with 64
k of addressable memory.
Other languages just don't seem as cosy. Must be because of the
environment. If the eight-bitters had booted into Pascal, perhaps things
would have
looked
> differently? Most likely you're correct, but then I associate
BASIC with a full compiler
that could generate 132-column headered listings complete with symbol table
and assembly language output for each statement.
I think the interpreter makes BASIC unequalled pedagogically.
And as for booting directly into a language
environment, any old FORTH
programmers here? At one time, I thought FORTH would rule the world.
Well, there must be some Jupiter ACE owners here. =)
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