
Programming introduction
radically different type of language. The other great language of the early
computing days is Algol, and that has been the starting point for the
invention of several other great languages, notably Pascal, Modula-2 and C.
At the time of writing, BASIC, once'regarded as language purely for
beginners, has evolved into forms which rival Fortran for general-purpose
programming, and has taken on many features of other languages. It has also
benefited from being the subject of a standard, the ANSI-BASIC standard,
and one of its particularly strong points is its usefulness in handling both
numbers and strings. Pascal starte ...