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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
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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:-)