Subj : Card trick
To   : Roger Nelson
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Sat Aug 12 2017 11:42:35

  Re: Card trick
  By: Roger Nelson to Joe Delahaye on Sat Aug 12 2017 05:43:27

 JD>> While programming in Basic, used to get a Syntax error.  Finding
 JD>> that error sometimes took days.  Usually it was a simple thing like
 JD>> using a , when a . was needed.

 RN> It always is, but I think that could have been caught in debug mode. Time
 RN> has passed me by and my favorite thing back then was to take BASIC
 RN> programs and compile them with my IBM compiler after altering them
 RN> somewhat to make them run 
 RN> faster, but that was taken from me 12 years ago and BASIC as I knew it is
 RN> no longer around. Too many computer languages nowadays for me to get
 RN> interested. 

I still use some basic scripts.  I kept GWBasic in my Utils directory

 RN> It's like shopping for Head & Shoulders shampoo for oily scalp -- you
 RN> can't see the forest for the trees.

Yes and everyone of them has its adherents.


Joe
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