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For readability nothing beats BASIC. I sometimes wish that BASIC had taken off rather than being allocated to niche environments like VBA etc. It just wasn't po
by SeanDav 13y ago
For readability nothing beats BASIC. I sometimes wish that BASIC had taken off rather than being allocated to niche environments like VBA etc. It just wasn't powerful enough and in order to make it more powerful it was kind of bastardized into something almost unrecognisable form its origins.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> For readability nothing beats BASIC. For readability, structured/OO/etc. languages that don't use particular terse basic constructs (e.g., idiomatic Pascal, Python, or Ruby, but generally not C/C++) beat BASIC hands down; structured and OO descendants of BASIC are pretty much in the same readability level as other mainstream non-terse structured and OO langauges.