Re: BASIC vs Python

2004-12-17 Thread Peter Hickman
Gerhard Haering wrote: IIRC BASIC does have a portable language definition: ANSI BASIC, which is the old crap with GOTO and GOSUB that nobody in their right mind would want to use nowadays ... True, I forgot about that. The nearest to portable I have seen is Bywater Basic. At least it is written i

Re: BASIC vs Python

2004-12-17 Thread Peter Hickman
Mike Meyer wrote: BASIC as implented by Microsoft for the Apple II and the TRS 80 (among others) is simply the worst programming language I have ever encountered. Assembler was better - at least you had recursion with assembler. Basic has progressed much since you last looked at it, time to update