On 2/25/21 2:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I was trained on CORC/CUPL
Can you say I/O == "026/line printer"
I want to prototype a problem.
What BASIC in Debian repository most resembles "Dartmouth BASIC"?
Your choices are yabasic and python3-pcbasic. Both of them try
to be something like Microsoft BASIC.
I would strongly recommend learning Python. If you haven't
touched BASIC in the last few years, you won't be any faster
figuring out a new BASIC than you will learning Python, and
there's a far larger community of Python users.
-dsr-
Whatever BASIC you wind up with make SURE it has a CASE statement.
Original BASICs did not--that includes Microsoft BASIC and George
Washington BASIC. I'm told that at least some modern versions do
have the CASE statement. About 30 years ago, I was asked by my
boss to write a program for him that had a lot of possibilities to be
addressed. He wanted it in BASIC, since he was familiar with that
language. Three pages later, it was done. I could have done it in less
than a page with Turbo PASCAL, because that language, as just about
all modern languages, does have a CASE statement. (So does BASH.)
PS--I'm not a programmer, I'm an RF Engineer, retired.
--doug
