From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Jones" Subject: Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:02:33 -1000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <0a6a538010616a2HNLMAIL2@hawaii.rr.com> References: <200210212031.g9LKVM46014450@pyxis.wanadoo.be>; from hammer@revobild.net on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:30PM +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <20021022011206.D24238@neutrino.particles.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 22 Oct 02, at 1:12, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:30PM +0000, Heimo Claasen > wrote: > Sorry, I should have made this a bit more > explicit: as the sub-thread > started from some exchange > on XBasic v-a-v Quickbasic, I referred to the > lack of a > Basic _compiler_. > (_interpreters_ use to be hotbeds for > spaghetti code, indeed. And in > any case, they are > "slow"; which is the reason for having binaries > progs at > all.) > > Excuse me, I don't want to start a flamewar, but > compilers/interpreters have nothing to do with the > aesthitic result of your code. This has to do 100% with > the grammar/syntax of the language you are coding. No, it has 100% to do with the way you code. You can write non-spaghetti code in BASIC. And personally, I find C's beloved pointers to be far more dangerous than BASIC's GOTO! ;-) David gnome@hawaii.rr.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs