Olin Lathrop wrote:
> RussellMc wrote:
>   
>> Variables beginning I...M were implicitly declared as constants
>> unless explicitly declared otherwise.
>>     
>
> No, they were implicitly integers.  I don't remember Fortran having symbolic
> constants (but it could have, it's been a while).
>
>   
BASIC is after all originally a cut down version of ForTran, and MS's 
original a ripoff of the Original Dartmouth College BASIC as a teaching 
replacement for ForTran.

The clue is in the acronym.

I used ForTran, then Z80 assembler, then Pascal.
Then Forth, Modula-2, Occam,  8051 and 78C11  Assembler
Then C++ for a year before C. On a C contract I was accused  of  writing 
Pascal.  Whatever I was  writing, it was  compiling and working fine 
with the MS DOS C compiler.
By the time I encountered Basic, it was VB5/VB6 and I pretended it was 
Modula-2 :-) But occasionally I find VB programs on Websites that would 
not be out of place in ForTran, punched on cards and batch processed on 
ICL's George.

I still see and sometimes convert to Modula-2, JAL, VB6 or C#, C 
programs that are written in a ForTran Style with i j and k for all 
loops that look like C versions of ForTran, except the C programmer has 
tried to fit a half tray of cards into a single line of C under the 
impression that Optimising C compilers don't exist, Memory for Source is 
scarce and if no-one can read it, he will be kept on to maintain it.





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