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 | | During the 1980’s, most schools taught elementary-school kids how to program in Logo, high-school kids how to program in Basic, college kids how to program in Pascal, graduate computer-science students how to program in C (which was the forerunner of C++), and business students how to program in Cobol (for maxicomputers) and Dbase (for microcomputers). |
 | | To tell the computer how to do what you wish, you feed it a program, which is a list of instructions, written in Basic or in some other computer language. |
 | | The professional edition includes all that plus a database program (Paradox) and a dictation program (Dragon Dictate, which lets you dictate into a microphone instead of typing on the keyboard), for a total of $490 list, $410 from most dealers, $250 upgrade. |
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