Re: Language wars (6th September)

[afn03257@freenet2.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson)]

taibi@inil.com (Solomon Taibi) wrote:
>Roy Gardiner <gardinerr@dcslambert.agw.bt.co.uk> wrote:

>>1) You may not vote for the language you learned first as no. 1. So
>>'everyone always loves their first language best' is eliminated.

>Not me.  The first language I learned was GWBASIC.  It's the best
>language (at least for me) for making my PC make funny sounds, but not
>much else.  Even for that it's not real good since all else must
>stop while the funny sounds are made.

 Follow-up set to comp.lang.misc where this should be appropriate.
 I suggest the original poster set the follow-up field to
 c.l.m from now on when posting this. Cross-posted thread are a
 pain and vary annoying to those who basically just don't care what
 everyone's magical opinion of a language is. I use a variety of
 languages and I don't like any of them better than another. As far
 as the Basic cheap shot, I've translated BBS systems, a variety
 of tutorials, several minor DOS utilities into and from Basic,
 so if you couldn't do more than make sounds, you were using it
 wrong, perhaps stick the disk in label side up next time. ;-)

>OK, I'll bite.  What is "Orwell", beside my favorite English author?

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