Gavin writes:

> Wirt writes:
>  > And as to Gavin's comment that BASIC is inflexible, again that hasn't
been
>  > my experience.
>
>  Not the language but the !@#$% interpreter environment, which will happily
>  throw away all your work if you forget to save it before exiting, which
>  lacks a modify command, a redo facility, a search facility, auto line
>  numbering, abbreviated and misspelled commands, :mpecommands, :RUN, and
>  snide and insulting error messages, all of which Phantasm provides and
>  more.

Although there are easy workarounds for almost all of Gavin's concerns, what
really surprises me is that I had no idea that there was a market for "snide
and insulting" error messages.

We've always tried to put in as helpful and informative a set of error
messages into QueryCalc as we possibly could -- but we genuinely lost a sale
once simply because a trial copy user thought QueryCalc was both unhelpful and
insulting when it said:

   This query question requires a SERIAL search of 482051 records.
   This could take some time. A CHAINED search is preferable, if
   possible. Do you wish to use this question or rewrite it?

Wirt Atmar