When someone tells you how BASIC is not a good language, point him/her to the pages of HTBasic (www.htbasic.com)
It's basically the latest version of HP BASIC also known throughout the years as HP Extended BASIC or HP Mountain BASIC. It started it's life way back in the seventies on Hewlett-Packard's graphics and measurement workstations and included stuff most of (if any) of today's languages can only dream about.
Imagine writing a graphically intensive program which showed everything on the screen and then have the same program (with the change of only one line) drawing all that stuff onto a plotter. Not to mention that the BASIC program was controlling and taking measurements from myriad of various HP test&measurement instruments.
I still have the old HP-9845B workstation and I am quite happily using HP BASIC for some serious scientific research programming.
Basic not good... They don't know what they are talking about.
Barney
It's basically the latest version of HP BASIC also known throughout the years as HP Extended BASIC or HP Mountain BASIC. It started it's life way back in the seventies on Hewlett-Packard's graphics and measurement workstations and included stuff most of (if any) of today's languages can only dream about.
Imagine writing a graphically intensive program which showed everything on the screen and then have the same program (with the change of only one line) drawing all that stuff onto a plotter. Not to mention that the BASIC program was controlling and taking measurements from myriad of various HP test&measurement instruments.
I still have the old HP-9845B workstation and I am quite happily using HP BASIC for some serious scientific research programming.
Basic not good... They don't know what they are talking about.
Barney