Peter Hickman wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> BASIC as implented by Microsoft for the Apple II and the TRS 80 (among >> others) is simply the worst programming language I have ever >> encountered. Assembler was better - at least you had recursion with >> assembler. > > Basic has progressed much since you last looked at it, time to update your > facts. Basic has recursion, it compiles to native code, it has objects, > can be event driven and everything else you would expect of a language. > > Computing changes too fast to allow you to think you know it all. Keep up > to date granddad. > > However what basic doesn't have is a portable language definition.
May you could give us an idea of the current state of basic affairs then by translating the following example snippet: It's me wrote: > I saw this code from an earlier post: > > lst1 = ["ab", "ac", "ba", "bb", "bc"] > lst2 = ["ac", "ab", "bd", "cb", "bb"] > dct1 = dict.fromkeys(lst1) > print [x for x in lst1 if x not in dct1] > print [x for x in lst1 if x in dct1] > > It's simply remarkable for somebody to be able to do it so cleanly (and so > obviously) - "out of the box", if you may. > > Sure, you can do it in Basic. Ur...sure? Yes, sure... Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
