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_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: Turbo BASIC (was Re: QL (was: ZX-81 Question))
> >You can buy the latest incarnation of Turbo BASIC, called Power
> >Basic. It's pretty neat.
>
> I've been using PowerBasic since '90 or so and really like
> it. The later versions include things that the first version, which
> is what I have, did not. I've written fairly complex
> database/accounting packages with it and those packages were roughly
> 1/7 the size of a similar package written using the application
> generator in Foxbase or similar.
>
> Jeff
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