$640.00 to fill the tanks...

"Matt Barrow" wrote in news:44f2fec9$0$10298$815e3792
@news.qwest.net:

Snipola
Real Programmers don't write in
Snipola

Hmmmm....I guess maybe I might be a real programmer then...

I write in XBasic (as in EX-basic) which isn't listed.

http://www.maxreason.com/software/xbasic/xbasic.html
http://www.xbasic.org/

Brian
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:49:16 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:

Jose wrote:

And something better would be? would have been?


C is better than FORTRAN. Maybe something like C would have been
developed sooner if FORTRAN compilers didn't get so good.

I was expecting that. C has held back software development more than
any other language invented. C is what assembly should have been, but
it certainly sucks as a "high level" language.

As others have already said, C is not a high level language. It is
considered primitive from a level standpoint and only a few steps
above assembler, which is also what makes it so powerful.
C is sometimes described as a "write only" language.

Pascal is a high level language, but it was designed as a teaching
language, not the working language it turned into. Delphi really
gave Pascal some punch.

When I worked as a GA I saw some Pascal code written by beginners that
I could absolutely not follow, yet the stuff worked. I think about
2.3rds of the source code was camouflage.

Assembly language can be written using routines and functions. JSR and
return and conditional return statements in the middle of a routine do
not make spaghetti code, but lots of goto statements whether to a name
or line number do.




Matt
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:02:39 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote:
On the other hand, I don't think anyone should write C professionally
until they've used asm in anger (any asm, it doesn't matter which).

Probably a good point... I've done my share of assembly language
programming and it was before learning 'C'... Maybe that's why
pointers in 'C' never really bothered me... It's good to know how the
code and data are going to be laid out in memory...

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:06:36 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:
Don't worry, his bark is worse than his bite. :-)

Hey, I'm the most well adjusted psychotic sociopath that I know...

Skywise wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in news:44f2fec9$0$10298$815e3792
@news.qwest.net:

Snipola

Real Programmers don't write in

Snipola

Hmmmm....I guess maybe I might be a real programmer then...

I write in XBasic (as in EX-basic) which isn't listed.

http://www.maxreason.com/software/xbasic/xbasic.html
http://www.xbasic.org/

Brian

I'm an ex-BASIC programmer also! HP BASIC to be specific.

Matt