On Mon Aug-14-2017 21:24, Joe Delahaye (1:249/303) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 JD>   Re: Card trick or back to basics
 JD>   By: Roger Nelson to Joe Delahaye on Sun Aug 13 2017 21:26:25 

 JD>>> I still use some basic scripts.  I kept GWBasic in my Utils
 JD>>> directory 

 RN>> I don't.

 JD>> They worked, so why reinvent the wheel <G>

 RN> Because it's not IBM BASIC.

 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. 

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

 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.   

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


Regards,

Roger 
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