Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:10:27 -0600 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:09:57 GMT From: Gavin Wraith Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.programmer Subject: Re: BBC BASIC, EVAL and PROC Message-ID: References: <97aeadc3-ffb7-4043-8487-09bf6c6a0a47@u2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <7e6180ff-6d1b-4fee-8a06-d3cdb5a86d6d@r28g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> Organization: Home User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/1.00c (MsgServe/1.00a) (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-GNuO1cpkQ8thyO30TYu1CaMfcmseEkc9eZeYQAwKF8f517vpbdhzuanVTfD7pX9vFbPeccFkj+0aplt!xZVpMl2sHJHOYQCijFpEOGUkO27Lq3dpmfixgYDBJeLmAH1jIQANJrRvg6fkNlRYiAAwWdrQeP3/!xFK5 X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1882 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.acorn.programmer:1006 In message Steve Drain wrote: > Because Select has gone beyond use for me, I no longer subscribe, > although I was an early adopter. I paid my money to support development > of the OS, but I feel that it has been spent in a walled garden that is > closed to too many users. Precisely my experience. I too paid my money initially, for the same reasons, but as nothing came out from the scheme that was usable on my Iyonix, only vapour, I cut my losses. I am glad I did now, though I still find the schism in the community tragic. No wonder developers left out of exasperation. -- Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com) Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/