Help Needed With Sinclair 1000

From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Nov 2 20:32:56 1998

That's kinda cool in a twisted Word 97 sort of way. Context sensitive
BASIC...I'm wondering if this is where MS got their idea. You see, in
Visual Basic 5, it shows the syntax for the function I'm typing, and
also can complete it. Why is the Sinclair hated disliked if it had
what seems to be a useful feature?
>> O.K. How do I enter programs, then, such as
>>
>> 10 CLS
>> 20 PRINT "HELLO";
>> 30 GOTO 20
>>
>> if I can't enter things such as the "hello"?
>
>Once you hit the PRINT key it then allows you to freely enter the
string
>(or variable) you want to print. In other words, what you can type is
>sensitive to the context of the keyword.
>
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