Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!arnold From: arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: \"Stamp out BASIC\" committee Message-ID: <11308@gatech.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 12:23:16 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11308 Posted: Fri Dec 14 12:23:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 05:41:26 EST References: <6459@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Firefighters Extraordinaire, Inc. Lines: 27 > >> '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, We all know what the real problem is, don't we? Applications programmers are just a symptom of the disease. The real problem is the USER!! If it weren't for USERS there wouldn't be APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMERS, and then there wouldn't be BASIC and FORTRAN. I suggest we form a "STAMP OUT USERS" committee, and then all of us *Real Programmers* can get back to our hacking in peace! (All of this is tongue in cheek, of course. "Doesn't EVERYONE know that you have to hit the return key to get the computer to do something?!") -- Arnold Robbins CSNET: arnold@gatech ARPA: arnold%gatech.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa UUCP: { akgua, allegra, hplabs, ihnp4, seismo, ut-sally, }!gatech!arnold Help advance the state of Computer Science: Nuke a PR1ME today!