Re: Rewrite BASIC language today?

On Apr 26, 4:17 pm, "Stephen J. Rush" <sjr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I favor implementations that allow a beginner to use a subset, but have
> resources that he can pick up later.  FreeBASIC, for example, will let
> you use most of the old Dartmouth conventions: line numbers, global
> variables, GOSUB/RETURN subroutines.  It does (unless you use a compiler
> switch to set QBasic mode) require you to declare your variables,
....

That's very close to my philosophy for Chipmunk Basic.
A beginner should be able to type in and immediately run
a simple and easy-to-learn subset the language, perhaps right
out of a 30 year old book or kid's magazine article on
learning about computers and programming, and without having
to do any special configuration or limited mode setup beyond
simply launching Chipmunk Basic.

 Chipmunk Basic: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic

10 print "Hello World"
20 goto 10
run


IMHO. YMMV.
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