On 16/04/2012 10:46, Mark wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:34:34 +0100, "Richard Russell"
wrote:

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:48:29 +0100, Steve
wrote:

Only ******* emote about BBC Basic, it's dead, Dave.

It's OT for this thread, but for your information BBC BASIC is currently
one of the most popular languages for teaching programming in UK schools.
For example it is recommended by the OCR examining board:

http://www.gcsecomputing.org.uk/support/index.html
http://social.ocr.org.uk/files/ocr/G...eet_180112.doc

Any flavour of BASIC is a poor choice of language for teaching
programming IMHO.

"GOTO" ... need I say more?
Bring back APL, I say. The only "write only" programming language I've used.

Pete