Re: Wedding photography versus altitude

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:26:36 -0500, Alan Browne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found these unused words floating
about:

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>jjs wrote:
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>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>>Except, of course, for the VB programmers:  they truly are the scum of
>>>the earth.
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>> No no. COBOL "programmers" hold that honor.
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>I wouldn't say so ... COBOL has been a "workhorse" language since it was 
>conceived for business use.  A true legacy.  B & VB began as hobbyist 
>languages that took on lives of their own.
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BZZZZZZZT !

Sorry, Basic was in existence nearly a decade before hobby computers
and the beginnings of PC's.

The prime version of Basic was developed by Dartmouth College and was
used on many GE mainframes (via teletype) for labs and engineering
programming.
 
My first contact with Basic was in 1967  (yes, Sixty-Seven) attempting
to work out a format for computerized acoustic calculations.