At 5:01 PM -0500 on 11/5/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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$
Addition is, of right, commutative :)
>
>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);
But what about:
cin >> name;
cout << "your name is: " << name << endl;
>
>C and C++, however, are much more logical than either C or basic
Umm.... Err... C is more logical than C? I'm not going to guess what you
meant to say.
>(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.)
In Basic or C? [And in C, if you really hate it, try a typedef.]
