Subj : Re: Is Basic To Be Regard
To   : K9ZW
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Fri Jul 12 2024 09:43:00

³  MP> As an aside, I never really tried it, but I wondered back then if one
³  MP> could take a program written in TI-BASIC and port it over to run under
³  MP> BASIC on a PC. Some of the ones I typed in used sprites and some other
³  MP> things I suspect were unique to TI-BASIC and/or Extended BASIC that
³  MP> might not have a direct function to translate to.
³
³ There was a reference back in the day that mapped the various versions.
³
³ I think it listed some 150+ majopr varieties.
ÀÄ[K=>MP]
 
That probably would have been something that young teenage me would have
spent many hours lost in.  ;)
 
³ It was annoying when subsequent releases depreciated some function or feature
³ that your programs depended upon.
³
³ Downside of an interpreted enviornment, compared to a compiled environment
³ where once compiled there was less issues, that is until something machine
³ level was changed....
ÀÄ[K=>MP]
 
Ran into that in a COBOL shop.  Everything was just fine until you had to
make changes to a program that hadn't been recompiled in years.  ;)
 
Mike
 
##Mmr 2.61á.  !link K  7-12-24  6:40 
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