Isn’t the problem that you misspelled “experimental” in your original file
paths?

Mark
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 21:13 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:

> On 08/20/2018 02:35 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > David Wright wrote:
> >  [snip]
> >> Would you agree, though, that "BASIC" is the language that must
> >> have the biggest contrast between its well-endowed versions and
> >> the most dire cr*p.
> >
> > Well, back then i perceived HP BASIC as the best language of all. It made
> > me boss on all those expensive HP machines (from 9845B to 9000/320).
> > But C ran on all Unix workstations. And as soon as i became ambidextrous
> > enough, i fell in love with the display manager of the Apollo Domain
> DN3000.
> >
> > Microsoft's Visual Basic is said to have surpassed HP BASIC in the years
> > later.
> >
> >
> >> Where would yabasic fit?
>
> I think it would rate fairly well. I browsed the BASICs in the
> repository and seemed best matched to my preferences, specifically no GUI.
>
> >
> > It seems to be inspired by C (see the syntax of "open"). But why use such
> > a C-BASIC when there is gcc, gdb and valgrind ?
> >
> 'Cause the last time I used C was about 4 *DECADES* ago ;}
> Although I have programmed, I would claim to be a *programmer*.
>
>
>

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