> Basic was pretty clearly designed as an interactive, student dialect of Fortran. Yeah. I knew Fortran (at a high school level). Then I came across the TRS8

> Basic was pretty clearly designed as an interactive, student dialect of Fortran. Yeah. I knew Fortran (at a high school level). Then I came across the TRS80 Basic manual. I read it in an hour, and I thought "this is just like Fortran, except the words are different".