When he returned to the topic of floating-point in BASIC, Jobs complained it was taking too long. Without Wozniak being aware, the company arranged a license with Microsoft to receive their recently completed 6502 version of the Altair code. Examining the code, Wozniak decided that it was easier to add graphics support to MS's code than add floating-point his own BASIC, as the later required hand-patching of the original machine code while MS's was written in assembler and more easily modified. The development of Apple's BASIC ended in favor of what became Applesoft. Wozniak later noted, "My biggest disappointment was going to the awful string functions like LEFT$(VAR, 5) and MID$(VAR2,5,3) instead of my own".