From: into@oblivion.nothing.com   
      
   Joseph Gwinn  wrote in   
   news:joegwinn-51877D.22331310022013@news.giganews.com:   
      
   > Depends on what one is trying to optimize.   
      
   Agreed. Right tool for the right job.   
      
      
   > Not to mention that the C codebase exceeds the Basic codebase by a very   
   > large factor, so there is far more of a C ecosystem than for Basic.   
      
   I have to admit I have a bit of a bias against C. Just my   
   personal view.   
      
      
   > And HP Basic is a niche.   
      
   To be honest, I'd not heard of that specific variant before   
   this conversation. So, not really sure how useful it is.   
      
      
   > By the way, Basic was my first computer language.   
      
   Same here, from my first computers, Radio Shack's Color   
   Computer.   
      
   But as I aluded to before, XBasic is BASIC in name only.   
   I know it well enough to know it has potential. At the   
   same time that means I'm frustrated as it's user base   
   seems (to me anyway) to be slipping, and there's not as   
   much interest as there ought to be in keeping it up to   
   date.   
      
   Brian   
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