Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!?

From	Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.misc, comp.programming
Subject	Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!?
Date	2025-08-07 03:49 +0200
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On 06.08.2025 17:17, John Ames wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 16:30:36 +0200
> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just recently I picked a piece of old BASIC code - granted,
>> it was not one of the fancier new BASIC dialects but back
>> from the "glory mainframe days"
> 
> Yeah, the Elder BASICs are a different story. FreeBasic made a fairly
> decent language out of the QB lineage, though - still use that semi-
> regularly for proof-of-concept stuff and quick li'l one-off utilities.

(For "one-off utilities" I prefer using some standard language
or tool; for me that's not different from other development.)

One problem with BASIC is that, as they say, there are as many
different dialects as different systems running it. I was very
astonished to find [in Wikipedia] a list of 373 BASIC dialects,
and yet more astonished that one of the four BASICs I used in
the past (Olivetti, Commodore, Wang, Sharp) was even missing;
the Olivetti thing having been a very interesting BASIC beast!

I actually started with BASIC but used it only a couple years.
Once other languages were available I wholeheartedly switched.

Janis

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