Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!drutx!ahuta!pegasus!mzal From: mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: ANSI Basic Message-ID: <2165@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 01:01:50 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.2165 Posted: Sun Mar 10 01:01:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 04:07:51 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 19 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