----- Original Message ----- From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:52 PM Subject: RE: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie So undtrack?]
> > From: Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > And speaking of languages, is it me, or is BASIC making a > > comeback of sorts? > > There's nothing wrong with Basic, just a bad choice of names. Especially > Basic that has all the control structures to allow full structured > programming and modern programming techniques. Which VB certainly does. > >
Perhaps you should have said BASIC "now" has all the control structures . . .
In my first programming course, in BASIC, we had to simulate control structures with the controlled use of IF ... GOTO.
Several years ago, I had occasion to work on a by-then-already-rather-old Kaypro 10, which had a language called "S-BASIC," which stood for "Structured BASIC." It was sort of a hybrid of BASIC and PASCAL. Frex, at the beginning of a program, you had to declare the types of all the variables, and it had many of the control structures (DO ... WHILE, REPEAT ... UNTIL, etc.) in addition to all the traditional BASIC stuff.
IIRC they also had a "C-BASIC" which was more of a traditional version of BASIC (but it lacked some of the other features I needed, so I didn't use it as much as the S-BASIC).
-- Ronn! :)
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