Subj : Re: Is BASIC to be regarded as less than reputable prog lang?
To   : Malvinas
From : Bob Worm
Date : Fri Jul 12 2024 08:54:58

  Re: Re: Is BASIC to be regarded as less than reputable prog lang?
  By: Malvinas to Bob Worm on Thu Jul 11 2024 14:06:40

Hi, Malvinas.

I hope you are having a good day so far.

 > I have to admit that, reply after reply to this post, I came to realize that
 > when *I* say BASIC, I mean "the BASIC I grew up with and learned to use"
 > back in the day, which was QBasic 1.1, which came pre-installed with the OS.

Ah, that makes more sense. If I remember correctly, QBasic didn't even require you to use line numbers :) I suppose QBasic *can* be used to teach a lot more programming concepts, since those features are actually in the language!

BobW
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