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

R.Nicholson wrote:

>Many ... will
>still download many of the other 3rd party, shareware,
>freeware and open source Basic programming environments.
>I have on the order of 100 listed on my web page below.
>
>Lot's of people find some of these Basic interpreters
>and compilers far more suited for their purposes than
>trying to find and use an old copy of QB to run in a
>dosbox under Vista or VMWare under Mac OS X.
>
>Old fashioned Basic was designed as and successfully
>deployed as a teaching language for non-programmers.
>There is no other language successful in that dual
>role. (Scheme and Logo were never as widely popular,
>and C and Java weren't designed for non-programmers.
>JavaScript on local web page appears to be the closest
>substitute...)

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

Great resource.  Thanks!

You might wish to expand this entry:

"FreeBASIC - an x86 Basic compiler (linux, win32, GPL, LGPL)"

to mention a few more things about FreeBASIC.  It runs under
DOS Linux, and Windows, is included in FreeDOS, and is on-track 
for being included in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).  Also 
notable is the fact that FreeBASIC is written in FreeBASIC.
I don't know of any other BASIC interpreter or compilers that
can interpret or compile their own source code.


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