Basil’s Compendium: “Painless” MC Development

This chapter will give you a look into “real life”, and will show you how to make a “rough draft” of your programs in BASIC.

I always find it easier to debug my programs in BASIC before actually translating them into machine eode, as the results of an error are much less drastic in BASIC. However, I try to make my BASIC program look as much like the final machine code as I can, in order to minimize errors in translation. This results in a far-from-efficient BASIC program, of course, You’d have much the same situation if you tried to write a sentence in English so that you could translate it word for word into correct Spanish. Your final product could look very much like: “Themselves to me they lost my pencils”.