Indeed, this is where both Bill Gates and Richard Stallman agree.
BASIC is a joke. No REAL PROGRAMMER should program in BASIC. Billu Badshah took programming back by 10 years when he wrote a BASIC interpreter. And just to set the record straight, here is " AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS By William Henry Gates III February 3, 1976" (http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html)
I started programming in BASIC and I still remember the GOTO and GOSUB statements. Debugging them on a hard copy (since access to Comp Lab was restricted) was a real nightmare. I think people are lucky now that they have access to GCC, GDB, Emacs (may the true prophet's name shine forever) and Real OS and a Real HTTP server.
The author (Dan Bricklin) seems like a clueless idiot who is mouthing the sound bites offered by some marketing high priest. Anyone comparing Bill and Stallman must have his head examined. And let me not even get started on people who call Bill Gates a hacker. How the fu** can anyone compare someone who writes a BASIC interpreter to someone who churns out Emacs and GDB ?
OK, enough bile has flown out, time to shut up now :-)
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