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On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:06:55 -0400 doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>
wrote:

> 
> On 03/15/2016 12:22 PM, Martin Read wrote:
> > On 15/03/16 07:45, deloptes wrote:
> >> I see recently more python code written than real C/C++.
> >
> > So what? Most programs *shouldn't* be written in C or C++, and I
> > say this as someone who loves C and C++ and reaches for one of them
> > by default as the language for solving computing problems. (Unless
> > they involve substantial quantities of text manipulation, in which
> > case I reach for Perl because neither C nor C++ have even
> > *remotely* satisfactory capabilities in that regard.)
> >
> > There are specific circumstances in which a low/medium-level
> > systems programming language like C or C++ is the right choice for 
> > implementing solutions to a computing problem. I submit that *most* 
> > programs are not subject to those circumstances, and thus there are 
> > better languages for implementing most programs.
> >
> > Python is probably the right language less often than people use
> > it, but for most jobs people do with it, C or C++ would be just as
> > wrong a choice, if not more so.
> >
> >
> It's too bad that the original Borland Pascal is not around anymore.
> Or even the later version of BASIC with the case statement. Simple
> and even a doppus like me could write with one of them!

I can barely code- I am limited to shell scripts, Windows/DOS batch,
classical BASIC (which I taught myself, it really isn't hard- but it
left me with a GOTO habit), and (surprisingly or not) C#, which we were
taught at school.

There is a lovely BASIC interpreter called Vintage BASIC which holds a
special place in my heart... it is mostly compatible with
Altair/Commodore BASIC.