Re: Why use Basic at all? (was Re: BASIC with built-in matrix functions?)

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> On Aug 26, 8:45 pm, "Tom Lake" <tl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I believe it was early 1988.
>
> My GW-BASIC User Guide is dated 1986, and that has WHILE...WEND (but
> no DO).  BBC BASIC was ahead of its time in many respects, but I'd be
> surprised if it was five years ahead!  Surely there must have been an
> 8-bit Microsoft BASIC with something more than just FOR...NEXT?

GW-BASIC was an interpreter.  It was the compiler versions that were
updated
regularly.

Tom Lake