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ST BASIC again

#1850
From: Alan Kennington
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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From: knnngt@ukma.UUCP (Alan Kennington)
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Subject: ST BASIC again
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Date: Sun, 29-Dec-85 08:39:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 29 08:39:49 1985
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Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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