[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/8/2019 5:36 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 4/8/19 3:15 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>           Should have been "Use Basic, it's in there ..."
> 
> "It is practically impossible to teach good programming
> to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as
> potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond
> hope of regeneration." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

I believe the Basic he was commenting on was a lot more primitive
than newer Basic.

Basic dialects like VMS Basic and VB6 are rather feature rich.

And VB.NET got almost everything.

Arne