Re: Which basic ?

From	Helmut_Meukel <Helmut_Meukel@bn-hof.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: Which basic ?
Date	2012-08-08 13:45 +0200
Organization	HM - Soft Hof
Message-ID	<jvtjfq$pah$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<jvsto9$gt9$1@speranza.aioe.org> <XnsA0A920446DF75auricauricauricauric@88.198.244.100>

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Am 08.08.2012 vermutete Auric__:
> himself wrote:
>
>> I have a book published in 1985 with programs written in basic.
>> I need to run one to find where I am going wrong converting to Python.
>> It uses for example, line numbers, def fna(x)...., gosub, goto etc.
>> 
>> I have qbasic45 running in dosbox but the syntax is different.
>> 
>> Is there a more appropriate Basic program? I am running win64 but could
>> fire up ubuntu.
>> 
>> Just a hobbyist so go easy on me  :)
>
> It sounds like it *might* be GW-BASIC, but things like line numbers, DEF FN, 
> GOSUB, and GOTO are common across most flavors of BASIC, especially those 
> available in the 80's. (Offhand, I know that BBC BASIC and PowerBASIC both 
> support all of those, and they're *very* different languages.)
>
> Post one of the programs here. Pick a fairly small one -- less than, say, 50 
> lines or so.

Doesn't the book say which computer or OS?
There should be some reference to the flavour of the language or the
target machine.
Atari, Commodore, some C/PM machine, even probably HP Basic (later
renamed to HT Basic and ported to the PC).

In my experience: with really similar Basics totally unexpected problems
may be caused by some slight difference. :-(

Helmut.

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