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From: mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: ANSI Basic
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Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 01:01:50 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 10 01:01:50 1985
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   Indented excerpts from: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
      "Breaks 100 percent of all existing Basic programs, no matter
      how simple due to REQUIRED new syntax."
   The only new REQUIREments that I can think of are:
   2) The standard requires that assignment statements begin with the
      keyword LET.  I don't know of any implementations that didn't add
      the obvious enhancement and make LET optional.

It would certainly break every BASIC program I wrote on:
* An early (1974) version of UNIX on a PDP 11/40.
* DEC RSTS/E on a PDP 11/50.
* DEC IAS-11.
* DECsystem 20 BASIC.

I guess you could say I hold to the religous belief that LET is
kind of an unnecessary annoyance.

-- Mike^Z    Zaleski@Rutgers    [allegra, ihnp4] pegasus!mzal