On 08/20/2018 07:29 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
Isn’t the problem that you misspelled “experimental” in your original
file paths?
No <chuckle>
I had misspelled it when creating the directory.
And, being a lousy typist, I copy-n-past whenever possible.
I had used Caja's Properties menu to get the path.
But there was a typo which I caught after my initial initial post
[A missing "." before the extension of the input file].
Mark
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 21:13 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net
<mailto: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*.
