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

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 02 January 2010, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>> 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).
>
Yeah, at times one could say that Eric has a way with words.  OTOH, to 
compare Basic09 to one of those basic's is an insult to basic09.  The only 
thing I miss is the ability to do long long's for several more decades of 
precision, something we can do in C very easily.

-- 
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