Getting the Most Out of SBASIC

More and more people are using SBASIC – the wonderful SuperBASIC compatible language which comes with any SMSQ for the GoldCard, SuperGoldCard, all ATARIs and the QXL. It offers far more facilies besides being very fast and able to be executed many times at the same time (we will make use of this feature in some examples later), and a number of those new features can make a programmer’s life a lot easier and I will try to explain, how. I assume that most QL users program in BASIC, if they program at all. SuperBASIC is very easy to learn, offers you a lot of flexibility unlike most other languages and does not force you to do things in a specific way. Nowadays, more than 10 years after it has been written, it is still better than a number of other BASICs in many respects, which shows that the author of it had done a wonderful job. However, nobody is perfect, and SuperBASIC was written before many users had a chance to use it. Now, after 10 years, users have told us what they felt was missing. Much of this has been incorporated into SBASIC, making it even more perfect.