On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The MSX BASIC environment sure has its merits, but I _really_ find the
> hassling
> with linenumbers etc backwards. An idea could be to develop a completely
> new
> MSX BASIC version (would be v5.0 or something?), which has
>
> - no linenumbers (yes!)
> - long variable names
> - user defined types
> - subroutines, procedures and functions
> - possibility to build and link libraries.
That's all very nice, but there is one thing I wonder: why BASIC?
I wrote programs in QuickBASIC for years, but now that I'm used to Pascal
and Java I rarely use QB anymore. For large programs, QB is not nice. And
large programs are exactly the programs for which MSX-BASIC is not
sufficient.
Bye,
Maarten
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