[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Dave Froble]

On 10/14/2021 2:36 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/14/2021 2:06 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-10-14, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> Was getting way off topic, so new topic
>>>
>>> Time to spam c.o.v
>>
>> Having compared the two programs, I find the Pascal version to be
>> a lot more readable and easier to follow than the Basic version,
>> although Arne does put his begin statements in a strange place... :-)
>
> No no. The right place.
>
> :-)
>
>> The Basic version has much more jumping around and just doesn't read
>> as well as the Pascal version does.
>>
>> BTW, Basic really does like spewing its special characters onto the
>> end of variable references. :-)
>
> Those suffixes are not requires so if one is programming in Pascal
> in Basic, then one does not need them.

Basic can be very happy to let the programmer specify that all variables
must be declared.  Then variable names can be whatever they are declared
to be.  Frankly, I see no decent reason to do all that typing when the
compiler can do a much better job than any programmer.  One just needs to
give it some hints.  I learned the variable suffex stuff long ago, and
it's just natural to me.  Just as conventions in another language might
be natural to someone used to that language.  Things like "!" instead of "#"
to denote comments.


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