Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajk From: ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: BASIC (was Re: XXD.BAS - Easy bootstrap for fast XXdecode program) Message-ID: <3269@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 19:37:31 GMT References:<27043@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Organization: Tg Programming Lines: 14 bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes: >Just out of curiousity --- how many people do keep BASIC alive and >runnable on their MSDOS box? I don't, never bought the language and I do. Actually, I have gotten away from BASIC, and into QuickBASIC. I happen to enjoy using it, when I have to. I mostly use C, though. - Jeff -- Jeff Boerio : Purdue University Dept. of Computer Science ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu : Purdue University Computing Center Volunteer boerio@summer.ecn.purdue.edu : Purdue University ECN Student Programmer