Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!uwvax!umn-d-ub!dross From: dross@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (david ross) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: BASIC (was Re: XXD.BAS - Easy bootstrap for fast XXdecode program) Message-ID: <2868@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 89 18:34:23 GMT References:<27043@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: dross@ub.d.umn.edu.UUCP (david ross) Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth Lines: 9 In article <27043@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> 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 >don't intend to. (I went with Turbo Pascal v3.1 instead, back when I >made that decision.) I regularly use 3 BASICs - GW (because its there); QuickBasic (all the functionality of Turbo Pascal, interfaces to MS Fortran unlike TP); and UBASIC (love those 2600 digits of precision; try matching *that* with TP:-)