On 22 Oct 02, at 1:12, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:30PM +0000, Heimo Claasen > wrote: > Sorry, I should have made this a bit more > explicit: as the sub-thread > started from some exchange > on XBasic v-a-v Quickbasic, I referred to the > lack of a > Basic _compiler_. > (_interpreters_ use to be hotbeds for > spaghetti code, indeed. And in > any case, they are > "slow"; which is the reason for having binaries > progs at > all.) > > Excuse me, I don't want to start a flamewar, but > compilers/interpreters have nothing to do with the > aesthitic result of your code. This has to do 100% with > the grammar/syntax of the language you are coding.
No, it has 100% to do with the way you code. You can write non-spaghetti code in BASIC. And personally, I find C's beloved pointers to be far more dangerous than BASIC's GOTO! ;-) David [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
