On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 07:57:02AM -0400, Tim Thompson wrote:
On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
Whose BASIC? Is M$ Visual BASIC a BASIC? I
don't think anyone but Microsoft really thinks so.
TrueBASIC? CBASIC? BASIC-E?
Just remember -- regardless of which BASIC you're
talking about. . . .
Basic-Plus under RSTS/E transcends them all. . . .
Wikipedia's page on it suggests it was less powerful than Acorn's BBC BASIC!
You should have seen some of the fugly hacks I did in that language when I
didn't know better...