On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Douglas Crawford <touchetek@gmail.com> wrote
Yes there are lots of suggested ways, the point is, its not built into the language. Basic, its built in, its one line. Its obscene that we have to google on it.
It's common with most other languages to use libraries, going as far back to Fortran, not sure which used it before that. I think it's still considered "built-in" even though the libraries are linked during compile time And you only link the libraries you need, to keep the code compact. It's a different paradigm with Basic, that never had this mechanism as far as I've seen. Either you had enough commands are you had to live with what they gave you and improvise. The "one-line" command applies to both, because in the end it's still machine code I only had to search this on their website because of the vastness of their library suite. Not like it would fit on those Basic reference cards we grew up on. Dan