[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Oct 14 19:20:09 EDT 2021


On 10/14/2021 3:36 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 10/14/2021 2:06 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> BTW, Basic really does like spewing its special characters onto the
>> end of variable references. :-)
> 
> And other languages don't have such quirks?

Most does not.

Fortran use variable names for implicit typing as well.

But there are some other quirk likes.

PHP insist on all variable names to start with $.

Most newer languages allow Unicode in variable names, which
can also create some confusion.

> Did I mention I don't like C, and most likely would not like Ada?

What languages do you like besides Basic?

Arne




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