Re: yabasic problem
On August 20, 2018 7:35:35 AM UTC, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i wrote:
>> > (Found the booklet. It's HP BASIC 3.0, not 2.0. Newest techology of
>1985.)
>
>David Wright wrote:
>> I thought we were up to version 4.0¹ by 1985,
>
>Indeed, the booklet says "June 1984 ... First Edition".
>
>I think i did not get to BASIC 4.0 because in 1986 i wrote a BASIC
>program
>which translated our other BASIC programs to C (with some handwork
>being
>left to do).
>
>
>> Would you agree, though, that "BASIC" is the language that must
>> have the biggest contrast between its well-endowed versions and
>> the most dire cr*p.
>
>Well, back then i perceived HP BASIC as the best language of all. It
>made
>me boss on all those expensive HP machines (from 9845B to 9000/320).
>But C ran on all Unix workstations. And as soon as i became
>ambidextrous
>enough, i fell in love with the display manager of the Apollo Domain
>DN3000.
>
>Microsoft's Visual Basic is said to have surpassed HP BASIC in the years later.
>
Before VB (early 1990s) there was Microsoft Basic (Professional Development System) which iirc became quite popular in the late 80s.
-Jim P.
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