Wirt after Joe:

> >  Yeah - BASIC/3000 was pretty good.

> To my knowledge, BASIC/3000 has never had a six
> character filename limitation ...

<elbow alert>
But it does have that very constraining and unhandy limit on
variable names....     ;-)

And you do always have to handle all the routine details of
IMAGE intrinsics....

<smug alert>
If you were using Transact/iX, neither of the above would apply.

</elbow;  /smug>

> And as to Gavin's comment that BASIC is inflexible,
> again that hasn't been my experience. We've always been
> able to make it do anything we've ever wanted it do -- and
> generally with a quickness and efficiency that hasn't always
> been easy to duplicate in other languages.

... except with Transact/iX....  oops....  *now*:  </smug>

:-)
Ken Sletten