basic

[Geoff Kuenning]

In article <228 at spp2.UUCP> Jeff Hull writes:

>Just an opinion...
>anyone who ports BASIC to a UNIX system should be deleted from the
>net.  For those who have programs in BASIC which they need, there
>SHOULD be (but isn't as far as I know) a BASIC-TO-X translator (where
>X is C or Modula-2 or ...) and the BASIC source should then be
>trashed.

Have you ever seen the output of a Y-to-X translator?  Not a pretty sight,
especially to the person who gets stuck with maintaining the X code.
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	Geoff Kuenning
	First Systems Corporation
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