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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: davidbutteryANTISPAM@yahoo.co.uk (David Buttery)
Date: 12 Jul 2001 23:42:26 GMT
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T.J.T van Kooten <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> wrote on 12 Jul
2001: 

<snip>
>Build in programming language? (please choose anything but
> Basic!)
<snip>

Two points.

Firstly, what's so bad about Basic? It's entirely possible to write 
structured programs in any decent dialect (BBC Basic being a case in 
point), and the mere posession of a GOTO statement is not in itself the 
mark of the devil.

Secondly, why does there have to be only one built in language? Look at 
the BBC Micro - 4 ROM sockets (expandable to 16), allowing you to have 
several languages resident at once, switchable by software commands (eg 
*BASIC or *PASCAL).

[1] Yes, I do own one, and it's great.

-- 
David. (GPLRank handicap -6.57; Monsters of GPL +271.79)
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"After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, 
really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh.

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