On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 17:33 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: > Ya, you should stick with BASIC.
Interesting to hear you should say that after your comments about feeling the need to always defend Java from ill-informed attack. (Maybe I should campaign to keep people honest in this area--Curse VisualBASIC pre dot net.) I doubt most people who say such things would even recognize BASIC today. I don't even think there's a lineage connection between BASIC of 1964 and Basic of 2006. In fact, I'd probably use instead of GCC for a lot of things if I could find a BASIC compiler for Linux that was - a true compiler - compatible with C-libraries (header files and all) - compatible with g++ c++ name-mangling so I can use libraries built in C++ - object-oriented capabilities There are some pretty good implementations of BASIC for Linux these days (almost all not compiled), but since I've discovered Python, I doubt I'll ever use them. It is actually quite close to structured BASIC in some ways, but much more elegant. I guess I just like how pythonic python is... ha By the way, is JPython dead or does it still have a future? By the way, you are right; Java's not an inherently bad language any more than any other language. It's just that because of its popularity, many Java coders aren't really programmers--they don't understand algorithm and computational theory. They just bang out code (nounage). That is, I think, the biggest reason Java gets so many attacks. > > -Bryan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
