Re: Larkin, Power BASIC cannot be THAT good:

On a sunny day (Sat, 16 May 2009 13:59:30 -0700) it happened John Larkin
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You can't argue that C (and its culture) generally results in good or
secure executables, because it so obviously doesn't.

Obviously does, as Linux is written in C (the kernel, the drivers, and many if
not most applications).

C++ OTOH is not something I consider a language, and you may be right
about that.

But C is like having the soldering iron on the hardware so to speak.
You can do anything right, and anything wrong.
While other languages (except for asm) have some more distance,
Like you on the bench with the remote control.

For real design C is a must :-)
For user work BASIC will do.

;-)

To be a bit more serious, the old BASIC had those gotos and line numbers,
you got stuck with no space between line numbers, and needed a renumber routine.
I found asm much more easy than that BASIC because the assembler allowed me nice
long labels.
BASIC has come a long way since then.



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