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

Guy Macon wrote:
>>
>> Old fashioned Basic was designed as and successfully
>> deployed as a teaching language for non-programmers.
  > 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.

XBasic has been able to do that since 1988; early versions of XB also 
ran under DOS, but the latest versions require at least a 486, Windows 
95B and 4 MB of RAM.

Vic