for me its just this:

- when u start borrowing words from other languages it will make your own language not unique anymore and not really the same language anymore

why is it that hard to add "LShift" or "SHL" or "LeftShift" instead of <<
theres no logic.

but Wayne is not a basic guy, he is a c/c++ guy so for him its natural.
but for me, its not. for me its a betrayal for the language itself.

even if .net (that also betrayed basic) just adapted << >>,it doesn't mean that TwinBasic need to follow the .Net dudes.
I thought that TwinBasic was the continuation of VB6 and not .Net

so another betrayal. its the whole reason TwinBasic has a chance to get us VB6 on board because we never bought the .net discount.
if I really liked how .net worked, I would have already migrated and I wouldn't even care for TwinBasic as I would have focus on the later .Net updates.