Re: Evil Conspiracy!

[ben_yates_iii@yahoo.com (Ben Yates)]

salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote in message news:<u4ec6pr4929fee@corp.supernews.com>...
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> In article <3C47178B.7050905@coli.uni-sb.de>,
> Linards Ticmanis  <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> >Dan wrote:
> >> Microsoft made Applesoft Basic!?!?
> >
> >Well, unfortunately the answer is YES...
> >
> >Notable exceptions are Apple's Integer BASIC, and (I think) the BASIC of 
> >the TI 99/4A.
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> Everyone here (well, everyone in csa2 anyway) knows Woz wrote Integer BASIC,
> and I'm 99% sure (bad pun) that TI BASIC and Extended TI BASIC didn't come
> out of Redmond (or wherever Microsoft was based at the time).  Once you get
> beyond the simplest stuff, the syntax (and sometimes the semantics) of TI
> BASIC diverges quite a bit from the various Microsoft BASIC variants.  

We had this disussion of the TI on the TI Online Users Group at Yahoo
Groups!
Unfortunately, Microsoft did write TI Basic, and either TI updated
their code in Extended Basic or they wrote that as well.
TI had very strict guidelines - the BASIC had to meet ANSI minimal
requirements. Therefore, there were syntax differences.
BTW: PRINT 23+"23"+-23 in TI BASIC gives:
* STRING-NUMBER MISMATCH

"&" is the concatenation operator on the TI.