On 12/15/2017 08:47 AM, John Sechrest wrote:
What is the goal of the basic?
Chuckle. I intentionally capitalized BASIC to be recognized as an acronym.
Just dinking around?
BASIC is the appropriate tool. E.G. it's silly and often counter
productive to use a cannon for an annoying mosquito.
Or creating value of some kind?
Value for me.
Or solving some particular problem?
Actually a loosely defined set of problems.
I've often wished for BASIC to write a simple script.
There are a proliferate plethora of corpulent Basic's out there.
I know there are tools aimed at scripts. HOWEVER I know and am
comfortable with { "new" <> "better" }
The default language that I point purple to is JavaScript, since it is so
ubiquitous and since it solves many problems in the default user interface
these days.
It looks like there are three versions of basic transpired to JavaScript
https://github.com/jashkenas/CoffeeScript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS
So JavaScript has some versitility
I avoid Java and JavaScript.
95% of what I do could easily be done on a 64k 8080 machine.
[I do avail myself of the capabilities of my 64bit GHz processor with an
attached 1TB external drive when appropriate.
IOW, the suitable tool for my needs is a tack hammer not a sledgehammer.
smaller is *BETTER*!
On Dec 15, 2017 6:07 AM, "Richard Owlett" <[email protected]> wrote:
The thread titled "Learning programming" prompts to ask.
I'm looking for a _simple_ BASIC, similar to "Dartmouth BASIC" or
"Lawrence Livermore BASIC", to run on my Debian machine. Modern Basic's are
too powerful and filled with glitter.
I have mind some simple scripts. I'm learning Tcl which is appropriate for
most if not all of my needs. But my intro to programming used CORC/CUPL
(Cornell's predecessor of Dartmouth's BASIC) and I would like to use
something I'm fluent in. I wouldn't miss requiring line numbers. I might
even use a GOTO or two. (an elderly owl does expect to duck for cover ;)
TIA
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