Thank you one and all, I've got a stack of new pages to read and reread where I've not seen them in a while.
There's one or two in there which from a cursory glance look like they might well make it happen for me.
As for the don't use the bits you don't want, well, I'd sorta figured that bit out anyway, but could not see the point in inviting feature creep and bloat, since that's what I'd like to get away from.
I was sorta thinking "less is more" and with less in it there's less to be wrong, bugged or broken. I'd rather see less in it but see it done really well, with some attention to the small details that make coding a pleasure again rather than a chore, which it's seemed to become in recent years.
I'm like it with meals too, preferring "simple" cooked well consistently, rather than "adventurous" but which nearly always fails to quite make the trip past mediocre.
Much to consider here, thank you all. Still open for other suggestions if you happen to know of one. Thank you also for some amazing memories of tools from the past! Some big names sadly no longer with us, and rather findly missed frankly.
With some of them you could just fire up the editor like it was a word processor and just write code that worked just like you were writing in your mother tongue, only glancing at the good and concise language reference to get the right "accent" for the particular dialect. Now that's good BASIC. Some of them also delight with elegant variations in the dialect. What a joy those can be.
Finally, assuming FreeBasic does not require you to go out and buy a teletype and a foot thick pile of green and white killer fanfold, then I'd say the author of said language "get's it" when it comes to lprint - I just wish more got it in the same way.
There's one or two in there which from a cursory glance look like they might well make it happen for me.
As for the don't use the bits you don't want, well, I'd sorta figured that bit out anyway, but could not see the point in inviting feature creep and bloat, since that's what I'd like to get away from.
I was sorta thinking "less is more" and with less in it there's less to be wrong, bugged or broken. I'd rather see less in it but see it done really well, with some attention to the small details that make coding a pleasure again rather than a chore, which it's seemed to become in recent years.
I'm like it with meals too, preferring "simple" cooked well consistently, rather than "adventurous" but which nearly always fails to quite make the trip past mediocre.
Much to consider here, thank you all. Still open for other suggestions if you happen to know of one. Thank you also for some amazing memories of tools from the past! Some big names sadly no longer with us, and rather findly missed frankly.
With some of them you could just fire up the editor like it was a word processor and just write code that worked just like you were writing in your mother tongue, only glancing at the good and concise language reference to get the right "accent" for the particular dialect. Now that's good BASIC. Some of them also delight with elegant variations in the dialect. What a joy those can be.
Finally, assuming FreeBasic does not require you to go out and buy a teletype and a foot thick pile of green and white killer fanfold, then I'd say the author of said language "get's it" when it comes to lprint - I just wish more got it in the same way.