Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmdeo!adspdk!hclausen From: hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Basic On a 3000? Message-ID: Date: 19 Aug 90 22:46:22 GMT References: <14617@venera.isi.edu> Lines: 27 >In article <14617@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes: >Under 2.0 if you try to load, save or run ANYTHING in Basic the >machine crashed immediately. Under 1.3 programs will simply not run. Not 32 bit clean. The A3000 is probably the first Amiga with Ram in 32 bit space, and AmigaBASIC uses the upper 8 bits for other information. MicroSoft product, BTW. Real dirty programming. >Does this mean that I HAVE to program in C from now on? I don't have a C >compiler package at home and sometimes I found it easier to just do Basic >Any comments on this? Check out ARexx. It'll prove to be a real nice language for Text, file console oriented activity. Much cleaner than BASIC, but of course there's a new syntax to learn. And there's a whole new world of scripting for other programs and interprocess communication waiting for you. Written by Bill Hawes, of ConMan fame. Lean, efficient, stable. There's also a very good commercial BASIC available - GFA. Should do the job (or will be updated to work if not). -Henrik -- | Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data (Fido: 2:230/22.33) | | ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!adspdk!hclausen | \__"Do not accept the heart that is the slave to reason" - Qawwali trad__/