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Robert Adsett
- Jan 1, 1970
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John said:There are several "modern" BASICs around, and they can be quite
readable.
That's rather the point I was making with the reference to more recent
structured variations. They bear very little resemblance to vintage
basic.
FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
DIM ROM(524287) AS BYTE ' IMAGE WORKSPACE, 4194304 BITS
One of several structured variants. Most of which seem to have
borrowed heavily from pascal, C, fortran etc...
Much easier to read nad write maintainable code in. I'm doing a
project at the moment the uses Visual Basic heavily (it has it's own
set of obscurities).
Not that I think basic is fundamentally any more readable than most
other languages. It's just a matter of being familiar with the
languages cabalistic incantations. It makes a big difference what
language is your original mother tonque. Other language's incantations
tend to look odd in comparison. The one expection, I would definitely
make is APL, that's obscure by most definitions although compact.
Might make a good DSP language come to think of it even if I wouldn't
want to maintain it
Robert