Re:Pretentious (Score 1)

Hit that nail _on_ the head. I understood what was intended, however. After a second or two. I have to work in French or Spanish from time to time. When you have to use your functional but unpolished grasp of a foreign language, you get burned sometimes. I sympathise. But BASIC?? Good Gawd, why? I'd never read the Jargon File entry. Illuminating. I thought it was just me. I worked for an outfit once that had an ERP and supply-chain mgmt. suite written in Business BASIC. It was gibberish. Calls to line numbers and A$, B$, J$, J1$, J2$..J4$ and large, flat files. It's all coming back...