On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:31 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Microsoft's entry into the personal computer market was by supplying > a version of BASIC that for several operating systems. And wasn't it awful... I know BASIC's sneered upon, as there are plenty of better things, but BASIC was a simple starting position for a lot of people. It was also the only system available for a lot of home personal computing, for a long time. Though, it typically was a very feature limited interpreter. We had it on a Data General mainframe, amongst other languages, and that went in the opposite direction - very featured, and gave you very verbose and lengthy error reports about your syntax errors. Many years ago I can remember tinkering around with Microsoft's BASIC on the Amiga, since it was the only programming language I had to play with on it, at the time. And actually managing to make a small relational database with it, even though it hardly has the features that you need for something like that. It wasn't anything really complex though, just interrelated databases of services, clients, quotes, and the ability to turn a quote into an invoice. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
