[vcf-midatlantic] Why {vintage} Basic beats Python

[Dan Roganti]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Douglas Crawford <touchetek at 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