Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > > I wonder if anyone here could recommend for me a very > small version of Basic that I might easily install and > run well in the small ramdrive version of BasicLinux.
As much as I loved BASIC on my Commodores, there is no way I would go back. The inbuilt scripting capability of Linux gives me everything I need and more. All of the familiar BASIC routines have comfortable equivalents in Linux scripts. Here are some simple examples: PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME"; echo -n "What is your name? " INPUT A$ read A PRINT "HELLO, "A$ echo "Hello, "$A FOR I=1 TO 5 for I in 1 2 3 4 5 PRINT "SQUARE OF "I" IS "I*I do echo "square of "$I" is "$[I*I] NEXT done A$="MERRY CHRISTMAS" A="MERRY CHRISTMAS" PRINT LEFT$(A$,7) echo -n $A | cut -c -7 PRINT LEN(A$) echo -n $A | wc -c Yes, there is a learning curve and there are lots of little things to trip you up (like the position of the $). But once you get there, you can have all the fun of BASIC plus you are hacking at the heart of the Linux shell. Cheers, Steven
