@rudiger True that decimal (as I think you and I understand it) should not be implemented as floating point. It should be implemented as a variant of FIXED POINT arithmetic - of which integer is another variant. However, since decimal is poorly implemented on Intel processors, we have to struggle wi...

Someone else may be able to clarify, but I think a quick answer is to use ZSTRING instead of STRING. It worked for me!

Yes, I agree, decimal would be a Good Idea. Many years ago I did put together a set of C subroutines to do this, with the number held in a 32 bit signed integer and no. of decimal places in an 8-bit signed field, and a COBOL-like PICTURE editing routine. It's not too difficult, but with only 9-digit...

Very nice layout, and well-written.

Sorry, my phone line has been out of order for 4 days. Just logged on to check email. Will check out your stuff and send something new later.

Timer routine now re-written, with the inkey$ options that were previously in the subroutine included in the main path.

Also replaced the inkey$ logic for the reshuffle with sleep / getkey

Re-uploaded to the same location.

OK, the following compiles under 0.17 (anonymous1337's copy of Monday) and runs. Updated source is at: http://members.aol.com/jevans4949/wmasi.bas The timer routine still needs to be addressed. I have put in some comments in a few places, and have tidied up odd lines of code where I was obliged to w...

Nope: tried wm.exe again and the system just seized up.

Re the dictionary: I note that the current version only allows for about 2k words. Are you planning something more ambitious? If so, would it be the same structure? I was meditating on some sort of linked-list tree thing.

Downloaded it to see what it was about. The .exe hung my XP system. Is it supposed to work on XP? By hard work, amended it sufficiently to compile. Got as far as a display which is clearly not right, and then hung; had to switch to the console window and Ctrl-C. Needs more work to make it fly. If yo...

Interesting question; where are COBOL, FORTRAN and other early languages today? COBOL is still around on mainframes, but nobody is doing develpment on mainframes these days. There were numerous versions of COBOL avaialble in the early days of microcomputers - and probably there still are. COBOL is ...

But don't use it for emails about planting a bmob for Omsaa bin Ldaen!

But i'm still wondering: why did my QBasic program not find the carriage-returns at the end of each line in the original text file? Can anyone help with this? As I stated before, both the INPUT statement and the LINE INPUT statement strip off the CHR$(13) and CHR$(10) before assigning data to your ...

... but it's not finding the carriage-return at the end of the original lines of text, and i don't know why... If you use INPUT # with a string target, BASIC reads to the first comma or newline encountered. The delimiter is stripped off before the string is returned to the target (and also leading ...

Personally, if it's to be read into a spreadsheet, I would have put tabs, or possibly commas, between the fields, rather than spaces.

Would it be a good idea to make them Reserved Words NOW, or at least add them to the documentation, to forestall complaints later? Even with just the explanation "reserved for OO development".