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

On Aug 25, 7:10 pm, "R.Nicholson" <rhnlo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I would have to disagree, since their are lots on new
> languages which have nice modern IDE's, but very little
> traction in terms of numbers of users.  And the history of
> programming languages is littered with dead and near dead
> ones.

You're making a very different point.  I didn't say a good IDE was
*sufficient* for a language to be relevant and successful today, but
that it is *necessary*.  Mixing those up leads to very muddled
thinking.

Richard.
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