[geeks] Go Apple....

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:54:58PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:43:37PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Well...I don't consider BASIC programmers to be programmers
> 
> They are - they just havent learned a real language yet. 8-)
> 
> The "hardest" part of becoming a "programmer" is learning the *concepts* -
> everything after that (different languages) is just learning different
> syntax to do the same thing.

A lot of BASIC programmers don't have the concepts either.  It is
possible to be a real programmer in BASIC, I think, but not all BASIC
programmers are real programmers.

I have seen some very masterful displays of programming done in
AlphaBASIC (a derivitive of business basic, that runs on the Alpha
Micro mini computer), a language that is amazingly bad (arguably worse
that VB in my opinion).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd