some contemplations about my usage of thinbasic
for me it is an extremely rich language,
it has a huge number of functions to deal with strings, it has 80-bit extended-precision math usefull for astronomy calc,
it has canvas graphics which are persistent to the screen.,
and it has the opengl like module TBGL with a huge number of functions and methods in wich we may keep studying for years, and i am now studying the 3D modeling.
it has an inside compiler lurking as a secret weapon called oxygen module in which the professionals can use assembly code.
and the most important it is now stable, until now with the new version i havn't experienced a crash, also no stray thinbasic.exe in the memory when we exit or after an error.
dealing with files are great, when we use Uses "FILE"
then we can save something to a file without opening it first this is done internaly, such as:

Uses "file"
Dim myStr As String = "hello world"
FILE_Save("hello.txt", myStr)

it will creat hello.txt file and fill it with the string.

there are also many other merits and innovations which can fill many pages.