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From: Mike.Lininger@p1.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Lininger)
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Subject: Re: BASIC advice sought
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Date: 1 Sep 90 00:41:35 GMT
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david.f.hoerl writes...

>I'm in the process of helping someone move from programmable calculators
>to the world of Mac. This person is starting with the CCS2 programmable 
>calculator program, but would like to move "on". C or Pascal is beyond
>this person at this point, but I think that BASIC might be OK. What's
>important is access to floating point (SANE extended) math and the abilty
>to call lots of previously defined subroutines.


Kent Borg repies...

KB>  Consider HyperCard and HyperTalk.  HyperTalk has some real limits, 
KB>  but so does BASIC.  The advantages are that it is probably about 
KB>  the same difficulty as BASIC but it lets you at much more of 
KB>  the Mac with a lot less work....

David

   You might want to also take a look at Zedcor's ZBasic.  This package
has all the simplicity of BASIC yet gives full Toolbox control for the
move advanced BASIC programmer.

Mike


 


 
 

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