Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!PAWKA@NOSC-TECR From: PAWKA@NOSC-TECR Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: \"Stamp out BASIC\" committee Message-ID: <6459@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 13:42:23 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6459 Posted: Fri Dec 7 13:42:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:12:36 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 18 >> '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.] ------