>Basically, I agree. But "close to normal English" ? If Basic is close to
>normal English, C/C++ *is* English. Just if a language has English words in
>it, doesn't mean it's close to English.
>
>Cheers,
>-- M. Uli Kusterer
I disagree, BASIC is a synthesis of algebra and english. I can't see what's
hard to understand about:
Input name$
print "your name is "+name$
It's only a little more difficult to understand than Hypertalk, certainly
much more easier to understand than:
scanf("%s",&name);
printf("your name is: %s\n",name);
C and C++, however, are much more logical than either C or basic (except for
defining a variable to be dereferenced, I find that insane. You dereference a
pointer, but to define something as referenced or dereferenced? There's gotta
be a better way to do it.)
