BASIC Suggestions
30-Jul-90 14:38:01
Sb: #114962-BASIC Suggestions
Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
To: Trevor Laib 72310,2647
Trevor, I can agree with you about discontinuing AmigaBASIC, but I cannot
agree with those who want to stop shipping the machine with BASIC
altogether. I feel that AMigaBASIC is so bad that it has done the Amiga
community a serious disservice – and this is not because of the language
itself, but because of the terrible slowness and unpleasant user interface.
It is even worse now that we have so many machines that use the whole
32-bits for addresses, whereaas AmigaBASIC has data stored in the upper
bytes that were not used by the 68000.
I also agree with you about HiSoft. It is miles above AmigaBASIC. Still
not all I'd like to see, but SO much better than the one supplied.
……Betty