BBC Basic

Although BBC Basic was great for the time, it now is like a chain round the Risc OS neck. Users should be tempted by other languages like C rather than having to use Basic. If it could be removed from Risc OS somehow and somehow ensure that BBC Basic programs still work. No idea how this could be done mind you.

I would ljust like to see better programming languages being used instead of basic, and removing it from the OS would ensure this would happen.

Not a good plan to remove BBC Basic. It’s great for simple single tasking programs mixing Basic with machinecode. Sometimes I even use it for commercial programs : http://www.kitt.nl/projecten.php?year=2006&project=Lichtschrijven

To stimulate the use of other languages just make them available, easy installable with all the help files you need and plenty of examples.

Peter

It’s also fast and compact, so well suited to being in a ROM image. It’s nice to have something like that that you can pretty much guarantee as being available to you on any RISC OS environment.