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# Learning SuperBasic, Or How I Got out of the WHEN ERRor Loop

After nearly a year of only using the Psion® sofware on my QL, I finally tried to do a little basic programming. I would like to share what I learned, and I hope others will do likewise. Would one of our members like to give a course in programming?