On Jul 20, 9:18 pm, Michiel Overtoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . > > Many major text/word processing programs (Emacs, vi, MS-Word) are also > written in C. Does that mean you should do all your text processing in C?
Well, actually, as a COBOL geezer I should not complain about Python. Rumor had it that the COMPUTE statement in COBOL invoked FORTRAN arithmetic modules. Yes, real programmers DO write in FORTRAN! Frankly, I say screw not only object-oriented programming but structured programming as well. I think someone should write a compiler, "Revenge of BASIC." It would have good old REMs, FOR...TO...NEXTs, GOSUBS, GOTOs, etc. Standard libraries of subroutines, and/or Copy Libraries of source code, could handle switching to new screens or forms, placement of objects, alteration of characteristics of all these, detection of mouse and keyboard actions, graphics, sound, placement of HTML code, EVERYTHING! If anyone wants to write this compiler, they should probably do it in Python. Make it open source, of course. I'm waiting! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
