Wayne Smith writes:
>Flame me all you want, but if some obscure UK language developed 20
>years ago can make it into a comp.lang group, why is basic still shit-upon
>and relegated to the status of an alt group? (alt.lang.basic)?
Well, LISP and FORTRAN are _even_older_, and PROLOG is about the same age.
Pop has its own comp group for the simple reason that the people interested
in the language were organised enough to issue a RFD and a CFV.
If BASIC only has an alt group, perhaps its because the fans of BASIC
havent got their act together yet ;-)
Now, how would one of the people far better qualified than me like to explain
to all these uninitiateds what pop is, and why its so good ... ?
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David Beasley (David.Beasley@cm.cf.ac.uk)
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