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From:Peter Gordon
Date:3 Jun 2001 at 12:04:24
Subject:Re: slightly ot - re: blitz basic

Hi , on the subject of [amigactive] slightly ot - re: blitz basic, you said:

> theres a pc blitz basic - **sigh**

> if only amiga would hire them to write a tao version for amiga one/

Why? Blitz Basic is horrible. People who like it are people who have struggled
through and got used to its quirks, it is not an instantly usable language.
Perhaps a whole new BASIC implementation would be a better idea... Blitz (on
the amiga at least) is buggy, quirky, inconsistant, generates awful code (so
its best to use as much assembler as possible), ...



Peter Gordon
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