I find True BASIC particularly useful for small-scale applications and prototyping, but it's clearly not suited for industrial-strength applications; for the latter, I favor Ada.
> ---------- > From: john hoy > Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:24 PM > To: Sundial Mail List > Subject: RE: paper equatorial dial with pencil gnomon > > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Lufkin Brad wrote: > > > I'm impressed that you chose to program in PostScript. Why not a more > > user-friendly language? Just wondering.... > > > > I don't know. It just sort of worked out that way. Just lucky I guess... > but I don't know if it was good luck or bad. > > What languages would you or anybody else reccommend as an alternative? > > jh > >
