On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Alex Giannakopoulos <aeg...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > I am not sure Ian really meant BASIC when he said "people who know BASIC". > Perhaps the gist of what he meant was "people who want to do basic > programming".
When I wrote that, I immediately tried qualifying it: "And again for Fortran, and C, (and Javascript, and Python...?)" Then I decided to keep it simple, and deleted all that. I wanted to say "the one language everyone knows, and is free, and works on any machine, and you can guarantee it's there without having to be installed." But wasn't I appealing to a world which no longer exists? I agree with Boyko. Stripped of these essential qualities, BASIC in itself is comparatively lacking in merit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
