[Jprogramming] @: and capped fork

[Ian Clark]

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Alex Giannakopoulos
<aegean at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I am not sure Ian really meant BASIC when he said "people who know BASIC".
> Perhaps the gist of what he meant was "people who want to do basic
> programming".

When I wrote that, I immediately tried qualifying it: "And again for
Fortran, and C, (and Javascript, and Python...?)" Then I decided to
keep it simple, and deleted all that.

I wanted to say "the one language everyone knows, and is free, and
works on any machine, and you can guarantee it's there without having
to be installed." But wasn't I appealing to a world which no longer
exists?

I agree with Boyko. Stripped of these essential qualities, BASIC in
itself is comparatively lacking in merit.