Re: Rewrite BASIC language today?

On Apr 23, 2:37 am, "Tom Lake" <tl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Sure I can.  What BASIC is supposed to be is defined by its creators,
> Dartmouth College Regents and the ANSI/ISO committee.  Any BASIC which
> is substantially different shouldn't be called BASIC.  It may be a great
> language but BASIC, it ain't.

Popular usage of the word would say the opposite.  The
weird variant that the creators and ANSI committee produced
was not what was commonly referred to when most people talked
about programming in BASIC, so that minor sub-variant is
the one that should take some derivative name ("True Basic"),
as opposed to being called "Basic".

The Apple, Commodore, Radio Shack, Timex, BBC and MS/PC
versions were far more commonly the referents of the word.


IMHO. YMMV.