duane writes:

> 5. BASIC is THE only language worth using and all
>  programs should be written in this language.

It's certainly the only language (HP BASIC/V, Visual Basic, Eloquence, etc.)
we use for all of our products. The purpose of programming is to lay down as
much behavior in as short as period of time as possible, in the most reliable
manner possible, that will be clearly understandable a decade after it was
written. We've found no language that satisfies these conditions better than BASIC.

Nor have we ever found a language structure that is faster to debug than
BASIC. Visual Basic is everything that I ever hoped for in a language; programming
in VB is not so much like programming as it is akin to sculpting.

Wirt Atmar

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