Re: Is it too hard to program for the Apple?

[lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)]

Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> One thing I did find myself struggling with is the fact that my Windows 
> programming today is done with PowerBASIC and it has a lot more features 
> than Applesoft.  I kept running into situations where commands I would 
> use today don't exist in Applesoft or the command did exist but works in 
> a different way or doesn't support certain options I've gotten used to. 
>   Then there is the fact that PowerBASIC is a structured, compiled
>   language.

Although in fact it's only a couple generations removed from FPBASIC (clone
of an enhanced version of a system-specific port of a cpu port of an
enhanced version of the original MS BASIC while FPBASIC is just a
system-specific port of a cpu port).

-uso.