Re: Card trick or back to basics
  By: Roger Nelson to Joe Delahaye on Tue Aug 15 2017 20:56:00

 JD>> No, its better <G>.  I dont think that IBM wrote Basic, nor DOS. 
 JD>> That was all M$.  I know there were diffrent versions of Basic.  I
 JD>> used on on the CoCo. 

 RN> I think you're right, but I awlwwo thing that the IBM programmers
 RN> colluded. 

mark answered about that.  Seems that Basic is much older and predates DOS for
PC

 RN>>>> It's like shopping for Head & Shoulders shampoo for oily scalp --
 RN>>>> you can't see the forest for the trees.

 JD>>>> Yes and everyone of them has its adherents.

 RN>>> What do you mean?

 JD>>> Sorry that answer was supposed to go as an answer for the various
 JD>>> programming languages.

 RN>> Greek to me still.

 JD>> I have to think back, but there was a statement made in this thread
 JD>> about there being various languages and you couldn't learn all of
 JD>> them.   

 RN> I believe I wrote that. I have to be really interested in something to
 RN> learn it.

I thought you did <G>


Joe
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