[Coco] BASIC09!

[Rogelio Perea]

I've always found Basic09 to be one of the most elegant implementations of
the language, and it could be because of the CoCo experience *thing*, but
B09 has been also a joy to program with.

Long live Basic09 :-)


-=[ Rogelio ]=-


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
wrote:

> After further browsing in the library, I came across a nice fat book
> of papers about computer programming languages.  That's always been
> one of my interests, so I picked it up.
>
> Unlike a lot of CS books, it had a fairly large section on BASIC.  One
> of the papers was by one of the Dartmuth(sp?) profs who'd originally
> created the language back in 1968.
>
> He spent a lot of ink putting down all the various versions of his pet
> language (esp. the microcomputer versions), including BASIC-09.
>
> Then he tells us why: He's started his own company to sell his own
> version of BASIC, True BASIC.
>
> Which looks a lot like BASIC-09, but uglier and weaker.  In your face,
> Prof!
>
> He can't even write a parser that doesn't require "LET".  There's a
> word for BASICs that require LET.  They're called loosers!
>