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Re: Evil Conspiracy!

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

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.