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Re: Popular Languages

From	Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com>
Subject	Re: Popular Languages
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Date	2012-07-13 07:30 -0500

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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> 
> (So anyone who's ever had to write a set of step-by-step instructions, which
> is what Basic mostly was, can never be a (good) programmer?)

The problem with Basic wasn't so much its (typically) interpreted
nature or its use of line-numbers, but its lack of modularisation and
its reliance on unstructured flow control through the use of goto, on
goto, goosub and on gosub. Add in a lack of typing and variable scope,
and you got a real mess real quick.

> It sounds just a bad implementation.

At the time, _all_ the Basic implementations were bad.

While it's true that you might have a bad implementation of a good
language, it's not true that it's all down to the quality of the
implementation and that language doesn't matter. There are aspects of
computer languages that can make good implementations difficult if not
impossible to write, and so the nature of the language will affect the
typical quality of its implementations.

-- 
Leif Roar Moldskred

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                Re: Popular Languages Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-18 04:27 -0700
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