[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Sat Jul 16 10:18:03 EDT 2022


On Sat, 2022-07-16 at 09:52 -0400, Dave Froble wrote:
> "children's programming language best known for things like the
> TRS-80 and VIC-20"
> 
> I'm not sure that you intended that to be derogatory, or just your
> opinion, but the Basic Plus language produced by EG&H was not the
> same as some Basic languages.  It had many good features, and, was
> quite adequate for business programming, and other uses.  The name
> may be shared, but the implementations were very different.  As DEC
> Basic, and follow-ons, it has only gotten better.

I'll raise you Visual Basic. It pays my bills. It is a great pity
Microsoft has decided not to keep Visual Basic on a parity with C#. 
-- 
Tactical Nuclear Kittens




More information about the Info-vax mailing list