Re: Larkin, Power BASIC cannot be THAT good:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:22:53 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

And BASIC? Want to talk about archaic? A language that doesn't have
structured datatypes, doesn't have block statements, can't call subprograms,
can't pass parameters to subroutines can is only good for nasty horrible
spaghetti code unless you use some proprietary extensions that haven't a
prayer of ever working on any other system?

Several vendors' BASICs do all the things you named.

The thing about Basic is that it's not frozen in time like C is. Modern
Basics can and do do all that stuff: structs, CASE, WHILE, TRY, THREAD,
formal subs, and great inherents like strings and graphics and SORT.

And I'd guess that most of it is incompatible with other Basics, and not
related to any formal standard.

C has most of this in the standard, so you can use the same code with gcc,
icc, msvc, ...


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