3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
9:49 a.m.
More amazing than the size of the spec is how much got done with that language.
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From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC
In article <4F025772.20312.3462474 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
By comparison, the ANSI standard for FORTRAN 66 was 39
pages; for the
USA BASIC FORTRAN derived from that, perhaps 20--of big print.
Can you even imagine an ANSI standard description of a "modern"
language in 20 pages?
It's not really a fair comparison as we expect a "modern" language to
do much more than FORTRAN 66.
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