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[Dave Froble]

On 8/8/2021 7:07 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Not exactly true.  While modern BASIC has c ome a long way it
> will never escape its roots which were not in the IT Production
> world.  Like Pascal it was intended to teach concepts and,
> believe it or not, one of those concepts was not programming
> per se.

Interesting statement.  Coming from someone who admits to not being 
familiar with the language.

Perhaps older implementations of Basic were as described.

Some time back, as I recall things, some of the compiler people at DEC 
asked the question, "why cannot every language be able to do what others 
do?".  The result was the implementation of many new features in Basic.

Sadly, not unsigned integers.

Also sadly, some of the performance inhibitors in Basic, such as the 
issue when returning from a subprogram.

So, I'd ask for you to explain your statement.

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