Unfortunately, the generalized tendency to "beat up" BASIC as a language for micros, back in the late '70's and '80's, by those promoting the newer "block-structured" languages, makes people look askance at work done in BASIC. I had a partner who was quite adept at BASIC programming and put together a very functional mail order/inventory control/accounts-receivable/payable package in about a week. Within a second week, consisting of probably five visits in seven days, he got it working very well in-situ, and our customer liked it so well, that he bought two computers (which we were pressed to provide, not being in the retail businsess) just to support his then growing business. I've found basic to be a handy tool, and, though it doesn't easily support programming in the large, it does allow getting things done here and now. It has lots of features, most of which I haven't ever been pressed to use, and can do anything your computer can support, up to a point. If only I had a dime for each time I used it to do a quick calculation ... Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:28 AM Subject: Re: Turbo BASIC (was Re: QL (was: ZX-81 Question))