From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Elias Athanasopoulos Subject: Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 01:12:06 +0300 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021022011206.D24238@neutrino.particles.org> References: <200210212031.g9LKVM46014450@pyxis.wanadoo.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210212031.g9LKVM46014450@pyxis.wanadoo.be>; from hammer@revobild.net on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:30PM +0000 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Heimo Claasen Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. And BASIC is number 1 candidate for spaghetti code... Elias -- http://gnewtellium.sourceforge.net MP3 is not a crime. - 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