Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
Basic is a "great" language for starting with. It is simple - very simple.
No makefiles, auto* tools.
Sure, the structrue of the language is a bit poor. However, it gets people started very easily.
Put another way.
How many of us started with Basic ? - I did, then moved on to Z80a assembly.
From the previous sentence, the old timers on the list will know exactly what computer I was using.
Derek.
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
I have used SmallBASIC on my 16Mhz Palm. There it is running well. In other words: I have no idea why they made a port of this "language" to a multi-user multi-tasking server operating system.
SmallBASIC
Fortran 2 on an ICL 1900 mainframe.
Steve
