I think Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum was great, ... a hardware limitation, not a BASIC one.

In fact ... /> Aside from that, the Spectrum BASIC language did everything I could ... never seen on a non-Sinclair machine.

... . Actually, it is lack of Sinclair Basic - such functions are present in ...

... . Actually, it is lack of Sinclair Basic - such functions are present in ... myself. I never wrote a BASIC program that was too large ... possible to write them in Sinclair BASIC, albeit a *lot* slower ... bit manipulation, but surely no BASIC in the early/mid eighties ...

... tricks to speed things in Sinclair Basic:

Using POINT for ...

... a programming language. Think again, Basic was used for scientific and ... with complete source listings for Sinclair Basic. Plus it's an interpreter ... , in my view, inferior to Basic as a beginner's programming ...

... ...

Fact is that Sinclair Basic was good for beginners and ... without reason appeared so much Basic extenson program for Speccy.

Using such Basic in 2006 looks for me ...

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Using such Basic in 2006 looks for me ... why people continue to use Sinclair BASIC.

Hell, there's ...

... />
I agree. BASin or Sinclair Basic is suited for 5 year ...

[QUOTE=piters]I agree. BASin or Sinclair Basic is suited for 5 year olds.
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Are you being delibrately retarded here?

... ]I agree. BASin or Sinclair Basic is suited for 5 year ... at all the educational software Sinclair published to cover all ... the logical ending is something Sinclair Basic which is designed for ease ... some sort of exposure to Sinclair Basic before they went the m ...

... =piters]I agree. BASin or Sinclair Basic is suited for 5 year ...

... beginnings on the ZX Spectrum Basic.

Anyways I took ... ’t for the ZX spectrum basic that would not have happened ... , decisions and lopping from my Basic days.

I am ... it is all thanks to Sinclair Basic. I originally posted up this ...

... with the idea of a Sinclair BASIC compiler for .NET, to see ...

... are hardly biased with name Sinclair - if here someone says ...
Thread name is Sinclair Basic vs. pascal. Even this is ... /> Comparing one pretty limited Basic with serious language, which ... may earn some knowledge with Sinclair Basic.
Choice is very ...

... =piters]I agree. BASin or Sinclair Basic is suited for 5 year ...

... some of us code in Sinclair BASIC and in BASin not because ... have nothing to do with Sinclair BASIC because it's outdated then ...

... ]So, let all propagate Sinclar Basic, Basin for beginners.
... s nothing wrong in using Sinclair BASIC for beginners if they ... to some comments that BASIC is pointless and taints ... be made in Sinclair BASIC, and that anyone using Sinclair BASIC was wasting ...

... you wrote Basin in non-Basic... Very 'unexpected' - hahaha.

Sinclair Basic on multiGHz machine is really ...

... ranting just : using Sinclair Basic on multiGHz machine is ... would choose Sinclair BASIC. We were discussing why BASIC was ... has anyone said that Sinclair BASIC is appropriate for development ... best system available, which contained Sinclair BASIC.

...

[QUOTE=piters]using Sinclair Basic on multiGHz machine is really ... making a comeback - not just BASIC, but Perl and Python and ... the additional benefit that non-BASIC programmers are usually able to ... can deny that picking up BASIC (true BASICs, that is, not ...

...
[COLOR=red]"BASin or Sinclair Basic is suited for 5 year ... me to familiarise myself with Sinclair BASIC than to learn a ... say [COLOR=red]"using Sinclair Basic on multiGHz machine is really ... ability to jump into BASIC and start programming haphazardly ...

... you making some support for Sinclair Basic I should not say anything ... maybe others make about old Sinclair Basic. I just said my opinion ...

... end this ranting just : using Sinclair Basic on multiGHz machine is really ...

... here - people favorizes Sinclair Basic just because it is Sinclair. Same as posts ...

... here - people favorizes Sinclair Basic just because it is Sinclair. Same as posts ...

... /> Arjun says that programs Speccie Basic from hobby and makes money ... , I'm not strictly against Sinclair Basic, just wouldn't recomment it ... programmed this year something in Sinclair Basic. And honestly, I didn't ...

... hobby superior to programming in Sinclair BASIC? Why should we have to ...

... ), why wouldn't you use Sinclair Basic?

Actually it's ...

... />
I don't hold Sinclair BASIC in higher regard than any ... I've ever seen... for Sinclair BASIC.

It's been ...

... ), why wouldn't you use Sinclair Basic?

Actually it's ...