Re: The Nerd Quotient

From: Steve Turner (srturner1_at_spammers_die.net)
Date: 12/18/04


Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:01:41 GMT

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:18:57 GMT, "Karl Johanson"
<karljohanson@shaw.ca> wrote:

>"Ron Jones" <ron@ronjones.org.uk> wrote in message
>
>> You could also argue that BASIC is interpreted, and all the rest are
>> compiled - even assembly needs compiling to calculate the jumps.
>
>My copy of QBASIC has a compiler.

As does mine. And all the macho-nerd proclamations about "real men's"
programming languages notwithstanding, I'll bet more functional
programs are written in BASIC than everything else put together.

Steve Turner



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