[Coco] C VS Basic Coco

[phil pt]

I like Pascal.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Oswaldo Aquique <oaquique at msn.com> wrote:

> I'd prefer PASCAL 😉
>
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] C VS Basic Coco
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> I was saying  in C you have to use some extra chars line printf ("value of
> a: %d\n", a);  vs basic it's much easer because you would use print "value
> of a ";a. For some folkes learning basic code is less complex.
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:12 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
>
> > On 14/02/2018 3:08 AM, Taylor, Phillip L CIV wrote:
> >
> > I the reason I like basic is because it's much easer to learn and read
> > the
> >> source code.  The example below 8 lines of basic code 6 lines of code
> >> vs C is 8 lines of code.
> >>
> >
> > Aside from missing the assignment of A=10 in the basic listing you're
> > taking a bit of poetic licence in describing that as 8 lines of C
> > code; you've also included the C program overhead to compare against a
> > BASIC code snippet... plus (IIUC) technically they generate different
> output so...
> > apples and oranges.
> >
> > FTR I'd call that 2 lines of C myself...
> >
> > for (int a=10; a<20; a++)
> >   printf ("value of a: %d\n", a);
> >
> > Regards,
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