Re: Interpreter for old basic programs from the line number era

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:23:10 -0800 (PST), "R.Nicholson" <rhnlogic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On Mar 3, 6:16 pm, rebel <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:12:00 -0800 (PST), thomas.mer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> >Hello,
>>
>> >I wrote a basic interpreter (bas7) which can execute old basic
>> >programs from the line number era (If you know GW-Basic, that
>> >was the era).
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>> I feel compelled to ask one question:  why?
>
>Why not?  There are lots of people who still ride horses,
>restore steam locomotives, build pendulum clocks, etc.
>I would suggest that one learns quite a bit from those
>kinds of experiences.

as an experience-gaining exercise for the writer, it may have some value. 
But
for the average joe I can't see the point in YABI.

If I ever find the need to run an old GW-B or QB program, I will dust off
GW-B
or QB and run the darn thing, rather than search the net for some third
party
product that may or may not run it properly.

I suspect most others would do the same.