Subj : Card trick or back to basics
To   : Roger Nelson
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Mon Aug 14 2017 21:24:35

  Re: Card trick or back to basics
  By: Roger Nelson to Joe Delahaye on Sun Aug 13 2017 21:26:25

 JD>>> I still use some basic scripts.  I kept GWBasic in my Utils
 JD>>> directory 

 RN>> I don't.

 JD>> They worked, so why reinvent the wheel <G>

 RN> Because it's not IBM BASIC.

No, its better <G>.  I dont think that IBM wrote Basic, nor DOS.  That was all
M$.  I know there were diffrent versions of Basic.  I used on on the CoCo.


 RN>>> It's like shopping for Head & Shoulders shampoo for oily scalp --
 RN>>> you can't see the forest for the trees.

 JD>>> Yes and everyone of them has its adherents.

 RN>> What do you mean?

 JD>> Sorry that answer was supposed to go as an answer for the various
 JD>> programming languages.

 RN> Greek to me still.

I have to think back, but there was a statement made in this thread about there
being various languages and you couldn't learn all of them.  


Joe
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