Re: Evil Conspiracy!

["Steven Posey" <stevenNOSPAMposey@yahoo.com>]

Atari's Basic was based on Shepardson's (sp?) Basic, a variant written in
the mid-1970's.  It did NOT use true string arrays, but instead used what we
came to know and loath as pseudo-arrays.  In some ways, pseudo-arrays were
easier to comprehend, but in practice they were a little harder to
implement.  But that never stopped the talented programmer from writing
extremely complex databases at the time.

Steven



"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote in message
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> Mo wrote in message ...
> >Just a small point- Atari BASIC did support string arrays. The
> >incompatability was in the fact that Atari used ATASCII while everyone
else
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> Atari Basic didn't exactly have string arrays, but you had to DIM every
> string
> variable to set a maximum length, and it used A$(3,5) instead of
> MID$(A$,3,3).
> A string variable could be up to 32767 characters long, vs. 255 for most
> other Basics of that time.
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