Re: Why use Basic at all? (was Re: BASIC with built-in matrix functions?)

On Aug 25, 4:29 pm, "Judson McClendon" <ju...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I believe the fundamental BASIC syntax is
> superior to either of these other languages. For example, VB still has a
> complete do/loop structure, where the 'while' or 'until' phrase may be
> placed after the 'do' or after the 'loop', but none of the other
> languages provide this full gamut.

But that's *not* a "fundamental BASIC syntax" at all!  Several early
BASICs had no DO or WHILE loop equivalent - all they had was
FOR...NEXT.

Incidentally 'C' also allows you to put the condition at the beginning
or the end of a WHILE/DO loop, so VB isn't unique in that.  And 'C'
has both 'break' and 'continue', which no BASIC dialect has as far as
I know.

Richard.
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