Michael Torrie wrote:
baykus wrote:
I am looking for one of those experimental languages that might be
combination of python+basic. Now thta sounds weird and awkward I know.
The reason I am asking is that I always liked how I could reference-
call certain line number back in the days. It would be interesting to
get similar functionality in Python.
*No one* in the BASIC world uses line numbers anymore. Why would you
want to? ...
The problem I see is that Basic as you use it above is not a language,
but a family of languages. Different Basics share as much (and as
little) as different SQLs. For my money, Visual Basic 5.0 is a
language. THe different Microsoft Basics usually have a lot of language
change, rather than being library additions. A lot of very different
languages have been called Basic, with the attendant confusion as old
syntax or semantics are abandoned or changed. The changes to Python 3.x
is a language change, but Python has been _very_ conservative about
changing (as opposed to extending) the language.
There are only a few languages that might plausibly called "Basic",
and Dartmouth Basic has maybe the best claim to that name.
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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