Woohoo, a downvote with no reason attached. Still, the point remains--despite the bile heaped upon BASIC, there is very little difference between BASIC and C. (The line vs block orientation's the only thing and even that's a weak argument as a number of BASICs do blocks)

BASIC isn't quite a source-transform away from C (and vice versa) but it's not that far off. Both of them strongly express their ALGOL heritage and there just aren't that many differences between a good BASIC implementation and a good C implementation. (BASIC, arguably, is better suited for quite a number of tasks than C is)

You don't have to like it, but that doesn't make it any less so. (And it'd be sub-optimal to compare the hacked-down basic that came on your Commodore 64 or early version of DOS with the gcc of today. There have been and continue to be a number of very nice BASICs)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: C compiler ... in Perl by Elian
in thread C compiler ... in Perl by rje

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