Review of "The Little Book of Basic Style: How to Write a Program You Can Read, by John M. Nevison", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1978
Stephen R. Barkin · ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems · 1978
My first reaction to this book was, "Who needs it?" But then several thoughts crossed my mind: BASIC is rapidly gaining acceptance as a major programming language. Many vendors, including IBM, are offering BASIC as the primary language for their smallest business orientated systems. The National Bureau of Standards is expected to adopt Federal Information Processing Standards for BASIC. And besides, BASIC is the only higher-level language that is generally available to the personal computer crowd. With those thoughts in mind, I looked a little more deeply into this book that promises to show "how to write a program you can read."