[Coco] The Coco's first webserver, written in Basic09

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> From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 1, 2010 8:16:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Coco] The Coco's first webserver, written in Basic09
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> 
> > I apologise, Willard. I guess this is proof that it is not the
> > computer's fault when things seem right. ;)
> 
> It's all good, I was just joking with you! :-)  Unless I'm looking at
> a COBOL compiler, I am rarely truly frightened by a programming
> language. :-)

APL is my own favorite language, but everybody knows it's write-only code.

> Although I have to admit, the Klingon FORTH+LISP interpeter makes me
> raise an eyebrow... ;-) (see http://catb.org/retro/ )

Klingons don't raise an eyebrow, only Vulcan/Human hybrids do.

Reading down that list, I still, after knowing him for twenty years, have no bloody idea what is the source of Eric's contempt for BASIC.  And we get along about everything else (we're both science fiction fans and anarchist gun nuts and geeks, and we've both been given the Colin Ferguson award by John Boardman,liberals and other socialists run screaming if they see we're in the same room at a convention).  (La Esposa has known him at least fifteen years longer than I have, since they grew up on the same edge of the continent and went to the same Star Trek and real science fiction conventions in their teens).
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net