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Article #1850ST BASIC again
From: Alan Kennington
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1985 13:39
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1985 13:39
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Update to previous message about ST BASIC: The strings are not completely irretrievably useless. One just has to replace statements of the form: a$ = right$(a$, len(a$) - 1) with statements of the form: b$ = a$ : a$ = right$(b$, len(b$) - 1) and then everything works okay. And then when the real BASIC comes along, such hopeless code can be removed. Luckily Basic is so slow in the first place that inefficient code doesn't make much difference. I'm collecting quite a list of Basic bugs now. But since real programmers don't use Basic, I won't bore you with the details. Does anybody still program in Basic, or is that just for kids and hand-held portables like the Sharp EL-5500II, with its magnificent 3.8k of RAM?? .................ak
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!knnngt From: knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: ST BASIC again Message-ID: <2438@ukma.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Dec-85 08:39:49 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.2438 Posted: Sun Dec 29 08:39:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Dec-85 02:18:53 EST Reply-To: knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington) Distribution: net.micro.atari Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences Lines: 15