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what would we need to do to python to make a suitable basis for tossing out COBOL besides cleaning the sticky sugar out of their shift keys and making money expression formatting?
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I'd still like to see Qbasic included in Windows
If it ain't broke, I just haven't gotten to it yet.
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(Feb-21-2017, 11:53 PM)ichabod801 Wrote: I wrote a Python interpreter for Dartmouth basic (technically BASIC).
so now we can run all our old Dartmouth basic programs on any platform that runs python?
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the idea is that python is easier than cobol, except for the pic feature, which
could be added on.
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(Feb-22-2017, 05:47 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: s9v999 Never want to go there anymore
but some people are stuck there. i remember doing a couple cobol classes in college. i needed an easy boost of my gpa.
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