Re: Rewrite BASIC language today?

"rhnlogic" <rhnlogic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> That's excellent.  Given a choice between features for
> power-users and features for beginners, the originating
> philosophy of the Basic programming language is best served
> by not including power-user features if they would in the
> least be in the way of or confusing to beginners.

Exactly the point I was trying (not too eloquently) to make.
I may have sounded like I don't want BASIC to evolve or grow.
That's not the case at all!  The foremost question developers
should ask themselves when contemplating a new feature
is whether or not that feature will make life easier or harder
for beginners.  Actually, developers shouldn't even be
participating in this thread since y'all are programming
geniuses (and no, I'm not being facetious!) and probably don't
even remember what it was like to be totally clueless about
what a programming language is and what it does.
BASIC certainly was NOT written for guys (and Alyce Watson)
like you to use!  8^)

Tom Lake