Is Katherine Trimble an envy racist bigot?

A person, mistakenly think that she's in his friend list. However,
rather than denying it, she'll simply give a friendly reply.

Such mutual communication automatically make each person in the friend
list of another in a social networking site.

Not suspicious of any problem, the person then build his business
network in a friendly manner to many of those in his list, which
unfortunately include the old hag.

For anyone really bored during the Xmas break, you may care to look at
my website: Mr T's Mathematical Diversions at: www.tonytooth.co.uk.

All programs are written in BB4W, mostly with embedded ASM routines.

I've added three picture-manipulation facilities, plus an additional
ASM tutorial listing. The ASM tutorial page has become the most often
visited on my site during the past few months.

In article aioe.org>, "Tom Lake" twcny.rr.com>
wrote:

Tom-

True BASIC appears to be a good choice, based on its descent from the
original. The website only lists the Windows and Macintosh OS9
platforms.

They suggest that an OS X version will be forthcoming. Do you have any
inside info about when? "Classic" doesn't work on the Intel Macintosh
platform.

Fred

Tom Lake wrote:

What advantage is there in changing to an ISO version of BASIC *now*?
If most BASICs adhered to a standard then it would be right to
encourage their use rather than the non-standard ones, but that's not
the world we live in. In practical terms there *is* no standard, and
ISO-compliant BASIC is just one of many more-or-less incompatible
dialects.

The notional advantage of a standard is portability of programs between
different platforms and competing implementations. There is now no
chance of ISO-compliant BASIC heading the list of dialects supported on
multiple platforms. If one is to believe the list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects then the dialects
supported on the most platforms are:

So after all these years, where better technology has
allowed designers to ditch the compromises they
first had to make, why is there not a converging into
an accepted, commonly used language, rather than the
Tower of Babel that the world of BASIC is?

Is it because there is no committee out there which might
hammer out non-conformism for it's own sake?

Maybe because big-business is not interested?

"Tis the season to be jolly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la. "

JJ

I made a stripped-down, no-bells-or-whistles version of that program I
posted recently that calculates the direction in which a satellite dish
should be aimed, given the location of the dish and the longitude of
the (geostationary) satellite, and also the dates and times when the
satellite and the sun are very close together in the sky, which can
lead to degraded communications.

It's in pretty generic BASIC. Even the BBC BASIC guys should, I think,
be able to run it without modification.

Enjoy...

dow

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100 REM ' Satellite information calculator
110 REM ' Calculates position in sky (compass bearing (magnetic/true)
120 REM ' and altitude (or angle of elevation)) of any geostationary
130 REM ' satellite...

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For what it's worth, here's the first place I ever heard
about BBC Basic. I've grown up in France, so I guess
that's because the BBC microcomputer didn't meet
much success here.

Tom Lake wrote:

That's not strictly true (apart from Europe, which you failed to
mention, the BBC Microcomputer was marketed in the States; I have the
US version of the User Guide in front of me as I write) however I
wouldn't be so stupid as to argue that BBC BASIC was more significant
than, or even as significant as, the Microsoft products. Nevertheless
it ought to appear in any list of the 'most important' BASICs.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/
To reply by email change 'news' to my forename.

-> How large was string space on the 64? Did it have a set limit, or did
-> it compete with other memory areas? I guess I just need to pull out my
-> C64 books, although I'm not sure they answer these questions...

-> I'm just wondering about your comment of "thousands of strings"...

There was no set string space. There was a large (by the standards of
the day, about 38kb, I think) chunk of memory that was used by BASIC.
The actual program "lived" at the bottom of this space, i.e...

rhnlogic wrote:

And you don't think BBC BASIC counts as one of the "important ones"?

* Probably the best known dialect of BASIC in the UK and Australia.
* Used on over a million home computers.
* Taught to the UK public on national television.
* Used in virtually every UK school for a decade.
* Its 25th anniversary deserving of a special article in the UK's
largest circulation computer magazine.

If that doesn't qualify it as "important" I don't know what would.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/
To reply by email change 'news' to my forename.