On 12/15/2017 03:17 PM, Neal wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
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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 applaud your efforts in doing this Just Because, intellectual curiosity,
comfort food for the programming soul, etc. Richard.
Just Because I was curious I ran 'apt install basic256' and got this:
0 upgraded, 43 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 21.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 60.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Hmmm, pot, kettle corpulent is in the eye of the dependency, etc. :-)
<snicker>
I'm no expert but several of the extras seem to be qt4 related. I don't
grok qt4, just guessing based on console output.
From browsing the docs I suspect much of the fat is related to its
animation/graphic capabilities.
It also has some introductory SQLite capability which will likely be a
bonus.
This was on a Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS box used mostly for Samba and WeeWx
purposes, with little else added from the base non-GUI install.
Have fun,
I intend to.
NealS
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