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From: raz%kilowatt@Sun.COM (Steve -Raz- Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My 1.4 Wish.
Summary: user error?
Keywords: Basic
Message-ID: <97368@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 89 06:32:13 GMT
References: <8904020420.AA25126@jade.berkeley.edu>
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In article <8904020420.AA25126@jade.berkeley.edu> CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET (Jonathan Crone) writes:
)after a frustrating session with amiga basic (I just needed something
)to grind stupidly through a equation, so it wan't
)a need for C)
)
)PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT AMIGA BASIC for 1.4....
)
)a language that complains about the following as a
)[flame squashed
)
)j=0
)for i = 0 to 0.5 step 0.1
)j=j+1
)if ((j/2) = (int(j/2))
                       ^
Could this be the prob ^ missing a right paren here I think.
This would give you the symptoms of a missing next statement.

[rest of program deleted]
)next i

)yes, thats right, amiga basic says that doesn't have a next for the
)for loop...

Yeah, so?

)Of course my favourite AmigaBasic message is...
)1980323 bytes free in system
)25000 bytes free for basic

Ok, so it's a little stupid. But it follows the tradition of stupid
products from Microsoft.

I believe that there is a way to enlarge your memory pool, I forget now
though.

)oh yes, and furthermore,
)ITS TOO DAMN SLOW!!!

If you want speed from basic, I suggest you look aftermarket. I know
that there are a few compiled basics available.

)why not contract microsloth or borland to port either
                  ^^^^^^^^^^
If somebody bites your hand off, are you going to trust them with the
other hand? My vote is to dump basic altogether, and to have Commodore
support (or port) some widely available 'C' language (GNU-C would be nice).
I'm dreaming here I know, besides GNU is humgo.

)come on now, its 1 million machines now, we at least deserve
)to have Borland creating stuff for our machine.
)(heck they made stuff for the MAC when it was barely 400000 units)

)How about it someone???

Don't look at me, I got a job.

)Jonathan P. Crone    CRONEJP@UREGINA1.BITNET      cronejp@mcl.UUCP



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