Notable Features
HP BASIC has many FORTRAN-like extensions, as well as supporting the original Dartmouth BASIC matrix operators.
line numbers are optional, unless the "ERL" function is present. It allows you to write "WHEN ERROR" error handlers around protected statements. The more traditional but less elegant "ON ERROR" statement lacks such context or scope.
One of HP BASIC's more innovative features is built-in support for OpenVMS's powerful Record Management Services (RMS). Before VAX BASIC (as it was then called), you would only get native RMS support in DEC's COBOL compiler.
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