On Saturday 18 September 2010 11:43:36 Walter Bright wrote: > >> Basic is famous in that its charter specifically was for > >> non-programmers. Cobol was designed for managers to be able to > >> understand the code, not to write it (a slightly different aim). > > > > Both Basic and Cobol are dead outside some legacy projects. > > True, but irrelevant to my point. I see that nobody understood my point at > all.
I do! You're talking about the purposes behind the design of a language, and what it was designed for. What that language has later been used for is an entirely separate issue. - Jonathan M Davis
