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On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:21:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Ummm ... I'm not going to trash BASIC or PHP. They're comprehensible
>    and serve their purpose without being pretentious or ivory-tower.
>    Good stuff is good stuff.

I've never done much with BASIC and my PHP experience comes from trying to 
fix a PHP app developed by another programmer. My real bone to pick with 
BASIC is its influence on COM. It gets real old wading through BSTRs, and 
Variants introduced because typing in VB sucked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_type_(COM)

The path from DDE to OLE to COM is another one of those evolutions that 
could have used some natural selection.