About programing, a general question

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Friday 17 December 2010 06:08:25 am Doug wrote:
> Most of us, in those ancient days--when your mainframe was a
> half-continent away and connected to your model 35 Teletype
> machine by an acoustic modem, used BASIC.  This was not a terrible
> language, no matter what anyone says.  It suffered mainly from a lack of
> the "case" statement. 

Modern basics don't lack this anymore

Thierry