Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.sys.sinclair Subject: Re: MS BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, STOS BASIC: derivatives comparison? Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:55:32 GMT Organization: Just me Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <86zk253p5x.fsf@gray.siamics.net> <86lidbwwtk.fsf@gray.siamics.net> <62d4af2f-931a-4b84-8b2d-8a0e4a8d9e5c@i2g2000pbi.googlegroups.com> <66426f7a-9659-4f1a-9952-3cf7c0a37893@s14g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <28d7a5df-2a91-4633-b871-868fa1ee24ea@u19g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <8he5c8p714ql4h2gkhreug1q3buqebcsfo@4ax.com> <6452f8e4-55c9-4638-8894-9ef52bb43249@p17g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net ojqSxWGHzRFH/R8ms6roXg8iUXFV5WQrabL5chHfXBdHD+BASNU/UH3UYk/4Jzl9Bs X-Orig-Path: telstra Cancel-Lock: sha1:27LmIOh7o80gaK6lHjLBmM8Vrhk= X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.basic.misc:355 comp.sys.sinclair:1689 In article <6452f8e4-55c9-4638-8894-9ef52bb43249@p17g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>, "news@rtrussell.co.uk" wrote: >On Dec 8, 4:03=A0am, ralph wrote: >> By that definition no language can be "stripped down" as long as it >> has an If and a Goto. > >Well, some sort of conditional test must be present for it to be >Turing-complete. But I agree that there is probably *no* language >that can meet the dictionary definition of "stripped down". However >that doesn't mean that you can choose to use the phrase in a sense >different from what the dictionary says: better not to use it at all. >The correct use of English matters! Except here in Oz where students (and teachers) haven't been able to use, or comprehend, correct English for several decades. Cheers, Phred. -- ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID