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Subject: Re: \"Stamp out BASIC\" committee
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 13:42:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 13:42:23 1984
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>>	'How do I apply for membership in the "Stamp Out BASIC
>>	Committee"?'

>>>	Yeah!  Stamp out BASIC!  Here at Tektronix we stamp out lots of BASICs
>>>	every day, some in ROMs and some on disks.  We sell them to
>>>	applications programmers and make piles of money.

	This is the key to the problem with "Stamping" out BASIC, FORTRAN,
or whatever. As long as there are applications programmers there will be
such "languages??". I suggest the formation of a "STAMP OUT APPLICATIONS
PROGRAMMERS" committee,

						Mike

[If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.]
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