Re: A86: Re: Re: clem's homepage
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Re: A86: Re: Re: clem's homepage
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>In a message dated 12/12/98 20:57:14 Pacific Standard Time,
>assets@eden.rutgers.edu writes:
>
><< a jealous basic guru was stalking him for a while .. the basic guru
must've
> have finally gone beserk >>
>
>That's just wrong. As I said on ticalc.org's boards, BASIC programmers
deserve
>some respect, too, and the BASIC community should recoginze the difficulty
of
>programming ASM. BASIC is a wonderful language that has many upsides, and
ASM
>is the same way. These two should not be in competition, but rather in
>harmony. If I rememer right, AShell uses Basic? So does Rascall? And how
many
>of you ASM programmers out there use string input in your programs? While I
>know that it isn't the ASM people causing trouble, just remember that.
>
>And if any BASIC gurus are reading this, ASM programmers have a tough job,
and
>just appreciate that there are people willing to spend hours making games
like
>zTetris rather than using BASIC to make a slow, almost unusable Tetris. I'm
>doing most of my programming on ASM now, but I still value BASIC as a
useful
>language for math and "flash card" programs.
>
>Let's give each other some respect.
hey, chill out. I could care less whether a person programs in basic or in
asm .. it's their life
what is this competition your talking about? there's no war between the two.
I don't know of any asm programmer who has disrespect for someone just
because they program in basic, so lighten up