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On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 13:07 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > The $ is of course used in system and library calls
> 
> Even when you have fancy BASICs that have explicit variable 
> declarations, and ignoring system and library calls, you still have
> all the string functions in BASIC which include $.
> 
> LEFT$, RIGHT$, MID$, STR$, SPACE$, STRING$, NUM$... The list goes on
> and on...

Latest VB.Net still has these, sans the '$' symbols. Hey, at least it
pays the bills and supports all the emulators I use :-D
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