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Date:Mon Nov 13 12:56:55 1992 
Subject:Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic? 
From:David Beasley 
Volume-ID:921113.10 

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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