Noah Silva on Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:12:57 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Pascal?


And here I wasn't even going to touch that one.  I even use Commodore
basic, Atari Basic, and Turbo Basic, among others.

  -- noah silva

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 23:04, Bill Jonas wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
> "They that can give up  essential  liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."        -- Benjamin Franklin



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