Aggree with both of Elias' statements. However, there's an additional element: Most of those Basic dialects earlier ran on "small" (mem) machines. And there _was_ a difference with using interpreter vs. compiler: while you could put eternally long spaghettis into the code for the interpreter (limited only by the editor's and the machine's live mem), the compilers' "development environment" - typically: QuickBasic - were rather limited in the amount of code they could digest at any one time, and this more or less forced to go a cleaner, modular design.
Anyway, that's more from a point of view looking at the practicalities; and cdertainly not an issue of flamewar. (Though I admit that I see some good occasion for that in it, looking at the extreme splitting-up of C[++etc] projects into hundreds of files, <bg>.) // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-10- The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
