#BASIC Suggestions
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Frank
Personally, I think the best thing for the Amiga would be to trash
AmigaBASIC. It works well, considering it's a gimmee, but it isn't what
I'd consider a polished product.
Personal opinion: Commodore, being tight for $ should avoid duplicating
third party software development and liscense HiSoft or some such similar.
Ideally, the very best BASIC should _NOT_ be shipped free with the
coumputer. Look at what happened to the Macintosh word processing software
when MacWord (MacWrite?) was shipping free with the computer. Shipping a
100% complete BASIC compiler with the Amiga would be foolish: 80% complete
is enough for Johnny to do his BASIC homework on without destroying the
market for third party interpreters and compilers. The nice part for HiSoft
(or whoever) is that they would still be able to sell their original
product as "BASIC+" or "extended AmigaBASIC"
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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