Eiffel better than Python ?

[Stephen Horne]

On 3 Jul 2001 13:40:29 GMT, David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.nospamnet>
wrote:

>reason to use Basic? After all, supposedly 80% of all business apps are 
>written in Basic - presumably Visual Basick since they've pretty 
>effectively killed off that entire market segment. Personally, I think 
>i'd rather take up a career as William Park ;)

You still see the odd business utility running in DOS - some old Turbo
BASIC and QBASIC programs among them. Last I checked, QBasic was still
provided on Windows CDs - it just doesn't install by default. I
wouldn't be surprised if GWBASIC isn't hanging on in some strange
corners of the world - and it's quite likely that some people have old
Atari STs or Amigas with BASIC programs to do some task which work
well enough that no-one felt a need to replace them. I actually have
quite fond memories of GFA BASIC and STOS - though not *that* fond
really.