On (04 Aug 97) Jani Saksa wrote to Roger Scudder...
 JS>  In fact BASIC is a _very_ good language for starters. Maybe with
 JS> GWBASIC and earlyer you could learn some bad habits, but most of them
 JS> are gone with QBASIC. It was very easy for me to move from BASIC to
 JS> Pascal and now I program very good with C & Pascal.
Hmm...please keep in mind that the topic of this echo is C++.  In your
message you don't even mention C++...
    Later,
    Jerry. (C_PLUSPLUS Moderator)
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