[EM] How to run opl on Psion 3a?

[David Catchpole]

Sounds quite a bit like QuickBasic/QBasic, which are BASIC type languages
with named subroutines, etc. Means there may be a prospect of us forcing
our programs on each other!...

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

>
> >Well, the closest I could get to information was
> >http://www.org2.com/opl-ref/
>
> Thanks for the reference. I'll check it out.
>
> >which tells me that OPL is a BASIC type language.
>
> What? I haven't seen the latest versions of BASIC, but OPL little
> resembles the BASIC versions that I've used. Since I don't know what
> the newest BASICs are like, I of course can't comment on what is or
> isn't like them.
>
> Of course it wasn't my purpose to make an issue about what OPL is
> like, and since I didn't really choose it there's no reason why I
> should be defensive about it. Nevertheless I'd like to comment.
>
> OPL has a few things in common with BASIC. ":" can separate statements in a
> line. ";" can suppress linefeed after a print. OPL, like BASIC,
> isn't fancy and doesn't have astounding features that distinguish it.
>
> There are differences too (with the BASIC versions that I've used):
> OPL is procedure-based, block-structured. Everything is in a procedure.
> Procedures are called by name. BASIC's nearest thing to a callable
> procedure is its "gosub", which is called by line-number rather than
> by name. OPL procedures can have input paramters; BASIC gosubs can't.
>
> OPL has the modern loop & if structures, has macros, and its procedures
> can be called by the use of a string, which has some practical uses.
> OPL doesn't number the lines. OPL arrays are only 1-dimensional.
>
> Those are some of the differences. I don't recognize OPL as being a
> BASIC. But then, as I said, I haven't seen the latest BASICS, and so
> I can't claim to say what is or isn't like them.
>
> Mike Ossipoff
>
>
> If that's so, I may be
> >able to help on some of the details. But probably not on starting up.
> >
> >On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The new computer that I've been trying to run a program on is a
> > > Psion 3a. It has a built-in programming language called OPL.
> > >
> > > If you've ever written OPL programs for a Psion 3a, or even for
> > > another Psion, and run them, then: How is it done?
> > >
> > > The run OPL icon at the system screen? How do you make it appear?
> > >
> > > The "run" selection at the program menu? How do you get past the
> > > dialog box that doesn't seem to respond to any keypress?
> > >
> > > The install dialog box? Same problem.
> > >
> > > Or is there another way to run an OPL program on the Psion 3a?
> > >
> > > Mike Ossipoff
> > >
> > >
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