Andrew Rodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What about BASIC? Aren't all the little kids today raised on BASIC? :)
I don't know about the kids _today_, but for about twenty years
starting circa 1980 most home computers came with exactly one
programming language tool, and it was BASIC -- line-num
Andrew Rodland wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
Larry
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That might confuse users of languages that were not
C-syntax-influenced, who think th
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
> >Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
> >
> >Larry
>
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> That might confuse users of languages that were not
> C-syntax-influenced, who think that
