Sigh.

Yes, of course, you are absolutely correct. I can. IF, when I find I have time to tackle a project, I'm willing to spend a half hour with the tutorial you suggested, instead. And then make slow, painstaking progress, referring to a language manual for every line of code I write.

There's nothing unreasonable about that. But in reality, if I have a half hour available, I'll find something else to do, something that can be tackled in that time. And the project I had in mind will stay on the back burner, until I'm moved to take on the process of starting to learn a new language. Which, frankly, may never happen.

Obviously, that's my own, personal shortcoming. But I'm probably not the only one who's guilty of it. And despite the alternative you've mentioned, I'd STILL like to see, at the least, a usable BASIC interpreter for the tablet. And I think I'm not alone in that.

Either of the two I mentioned in my first post in this thread would make me happy.