Bill Jonas on Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:06:48 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Pascal?


On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:41:38PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> Basic suggests basic, and it's a Micro$oft [sic] language.

Excuse me?  BASIC has been around since 1964, which is a good 10 or 11
years before Microsoft came into being.  MSFT just happens to have
written the most popular implementation of it in use today.

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