[Info-vax] The Future of Programming Languages and Web browsers

[Tom Wade]

> I've never been a BASIC fan.  Not enough typing for me, no pointers, not 
> enough control over data structure layout, etc.  With all the better 
> languages around, I just amazed folks are still trying to bolt stuff onto 
> the side of BASIC.  Whatever floats your boat.

Wouldn't be my first choice either, but at least it uses standard VMS string descriptors, is 
reasonably readable and doesn't suffer from the fetish of case sensitivity, unlike a certain other 
popular spawn-of-unix language that must be one of the ugliest things ever unleashed upon the 
programming world.

There are far worse things than Basic out there.