The main reason that *I* am aware of with people
being down on BASIC is
that it, in a sense, encourages writing spagetti code (probably with the
inappropriate use of the GOTO statement.)
It is possible to write really bad code in any language, and really
good code in any language. I've seen (and written) some very modular
stuff in the past in BASIC. I've also seen some of the worst damn
stuff written in C or PASCAL...
I'm sorry, but I truly believe that anyone who looks down on BASIC
because the code *can* be spaghetti-code cannot be considered a real
programmer in my book...
My US$.02
Megan Gentry
Agreed. But coming out of DEC with Basic Plus and other DEC basics
makes you forget just how bad the A$ environment is.
My worst, er first experience with Basic was an HP2000. I liked computers
but found the ASR33 a pain. Next course was Fortran on IBM punch
cards. Ugh.
Working with the single character variable names was a pain.
Editing was awful on the teletypes. (retype line number and reenter).
I'd have killed for EDT line mode.
I found that DEC's basics were quite nice to work with. DEC also had
a nice development environment as well with good tools.
Bill
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