* On May 26 17:26 Bob Lawrence wrote to Paul Edwards

 PE>> Show me the C code you think is illogical, and show me the
 PE>> BASIC equivalent, and we'll debate it from there. BFN.

 BL>   You are talking to someone who puts a low priority on logic. 
 BL> Logic is for computers; people work better with the brain 
 BL> they've got. In my case it hops around all over the place and 
 BL> gets there by a roundabout route.

 BL>   I've just finished reading about pointers, when the author 
 BL> rabbits on about how wonderful it is that you can actually 
 BL> print out the memory locations of variables. Who give a fuck? 
 BL> I don't care where the computer puts these things; just so it 
 BL> doesn't write over other stuff in RAM.

 BL>   C is giving me the shits... not because I can't understand it 
 BL> or because it is difficult; because I don't *want* to 
 BL> understand it, and it is bloody awkward. It niggles me having 
 BL> to type a whole lot of crap writing and reading a file one 
 BL> character at a time with a while loop, or make up strings the 
 BL> same way. Or discovering streams by accident when they're not 
 BL> in my beginner's book but seem to be what I want. Some of it 
 BL> is actually easier than Basic.

 BL>   I'll try it for a bit longer and see how I go, but I'm not in 
 BL> love.

Have you considered pascal?  It has the ease of understanding of BASIC with
vitually the power of C.

David
 

--- msgedsq 2.1