Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!mwm From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: (qualityp BASIC) -> NIL Message-ID: <808@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 00:58:13 EST Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.808 Posted: Sat Mar 9 00:58:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 20:50:36 EST References: <7873@brl-tgr.ARPA> <706@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <467@houxj.UUCP> <733@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <166@dmsd.UUCP> Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 19 Summary: In article <166@dmsd.UUCP> bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass) writes: >Mikes snobery is totally out of line ... he totally ignored the argments >presented by others and then presents guidelines outside reality. I stated the rules I was working with from the start. If people choose to ignore that, what can I do? BTW, your reality appears to be different than mine, with a much more restricted choice of tools. I pity you. >YES, you should use the RIGHT tool for the job, GIVEN A PARTICULAR >HOST FOR THE JOB. Being the only available tool for a job does *not* mean that it's the best tool for the job - it just means that it's the one you have to use. In the situations you've stated, I'd use BASIC, too. There are even less stringent situations where I've used BASIC, because it was the best tool *available*. Wherever possible, I corrected that situation by getting better tools.