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Programming, (sdf.org), 09/25/2018
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Who else can't get over loving BASIC? It was the first
programming language that I ever laid eyes on, and the first
that I ever tried my hand at. It was brought me into
technology, which lead to a career of sorts.
No one that I know is under the illusion that BASIC is the
best programming language in the world (though, if you
scoured the www you could probably dig up a few that would
fit that description.) But who cares? And seeing as how
there is no "best" programming language anyway, why not
continue to have fun with BASIC?
BASIC is great for very simple computers. It fits in and
runs from ROM easily. There are versions with ASM source
readily available. The language itself is easy to understand
and provides quite a bit of functionality, even on the
oldest systems out there (the CDC6500's BASIC is pretty
nice!) Programs are pretty easily ported between dialects.
I do have a BASIC section in this gopher hole, but I need to
expand it more. Recently I've been working on NASCOM and
MBASIC dialects (very similar.) I also like QBasic dialects,
for newer systems. I have poked around at many of them, but
I'd like to compile some things for each, and share the
stuff that I work on.
Yesterday- for fun, mind you, I don't do this for any useful
reason beyond that- I ported a tiny game that I wrote in
QBasic to teach my son, over to MBASIC. That was fun, and
I'd like to post the results here. Keep an eye on the
programming folder for developments, because I know that you
love BASIC too.
