[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Re: Long live % & ! # $

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From: Michael S Kluskens <mkluskens@...>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:28:41 -0500
At 10:26 AM -0500 1/26/01, tedd wrote:
>No offense to anyone (and I claim it's a compliment) I have always 
>said that FB is just a verbose C.

That's why I'm able to write a converter from C to FB^3.

>  For the exception of how FB handles strings (which is infinitely 
>better) and its readability -- I don't see much difference between 
>FB and C. Anyone disagree? I haven't seen anything that I can do in 
>C that I can't also do in FB and vice versa (however, IMHO, it's 
>more difficult in C).

The print formatting in C is more flexible than what we have in FB^3. 
I'm sure there is something else that has proven to be difficult for 
me.

Michael
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Michael Kluskens <mkluskens@...>