I have used only Basic on our 3000s for 20 years. Yes it does have some
shortcomings such as 255 byte strings, no double integers but the ease of
development - running things in interpretative mode to debug - more than
makes up for the shortcomings.

Plus I can include a sample of a VIEW program that gets around the 255 byte
limitation. Will be glad to post these tomorrow is someone wants.

I have a routine that converts to a double integer if anyone wants it -
remind me tomorrow and I'll send it. It is read out (from IMAGE) as a 4 byte
string, and I convert it to a long for any mathematical needs...I use
another routine to convert from long back to a "double integer" for storage.

Bill
William L. Brandt
Sacramento, CA USA
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