> Although I've coded in FORTRAN for over 40 years, my favorite
>language today is Pascal which has excellent control structures and
>which enforces "strong typing" to reduce the probability of bugs
>in the program. I see "C" as having an "anything goes" attitude
>(as well as a strange fascination with lower-case letters) and,
>therefore, nearly as likely to be buggy as assembly language.
Ada is also good for enforcing strong typing. C gives you the rope to hang
yourself. Pointers seem easier to handle in assembly language.
BASIC is Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instructional Code, but MS made it into
a Professional Development System that supported 16-bit OS/2 as well as DOS, and
more recently Visual Basic and VBScript. IBM produced a Visual Age BASIC which
they discontinued.
With new Intel and AMD CPU chips coming out with such frequency, it is
practically impossible to keep up with the new processor instructions with
assembler language. Using the newest instructions would mean incompatibility
with previous processors.
