On 25/03/2021 20:31, Joe wrote:
  This
> chap wants to get back to BASICs. Why, we don't know.

I think it's an cool admirable thing. I started there.

There are a few non-linux (or linux very hidden) single board computer
projects out there, that power up from cold straight into a BASIC
interpreter command line, just like the old home microcomputers.

The 8-bit guy showed this one on YouTube, and there are others.

  Color Maximite 2 - ARM CPU that runs BASIC!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA7REQxohV4


The Raspberry Pi 400, to me is just screaming to be booted up with a BBC
BASIC prompt without a GUI. Just switch it on, and start coding like
it's 1984... er, 1981.

  I occasionally
> dabble with VBA in Access, and even more occasionally in Excel, but I
> have no other use for any form of BASIC.


I used to be an Access developer for many many years, an occupation that
nearly sent me to the nut house ...

I still do a lot of windows things for work, with MS Office but I don't
use VBA or any of the development tools inside Excel or Access.

Instead, I drive the relevant Office COM libraries from PowerShell, to
create spreadsheets with pivot tables from scratch. It is an order of
magnitude faster and avoids living with the underlying often corrupted
file formats of xls and mdb.

It's not a popular programming technique though, and there are folks
that use Access VBA to be quick and dirty. I hate that.

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Adrian C

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