Re: MS BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, STOS BASIC: derivatives comparison?

From	Andrew Owen <aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc
Subject	Re: MS BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, STOS BASIC: derivatives comparison?
Date	2012-11-29 00:02 +0000
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On 26/11/2012 05:32, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> 	I see that there're a number of derivatives of MS BASIC,
> 	Sinclair BASIC, and STOS BASIC still in active development
> 	(e. g.: QB64, MMBasic; BASin; sdlBasic.)  And, as it seems,
> 	there's a renewed interest in smaller, "BASIC-as-an-OS"
> 	computers (check, e. g., Maximite [1] and its derivatives.)
>
> 	I wonder if there's a good comparison of their respective
> 	features?  I'm especially interested in any of them being
> 	compared to either Beta BASIC (a Sinclair BASIC derivative,
> 	presumably no longer in development), or its derivatives
> 	(SAM BASIC, MasterBASIC.)
>
> 	TIA.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximite
>

Not aware of any comparison of the features of these specific dialects, 
but broadly speaking:

* Sinclair BASIC has advanced string slicing functions and garbage 
collection.

* Beta/SAM/MasterBASIC added advanced functions and procedures to 
Sinclair BASIC.

* STOS (and later AMOS) includes game related functions like sprites and 
music handling

* MS BASIC is essentially derived from the original Dartford BASIC but 
includes support for DOS file handling

* QBASIC got rid of the need for line numbers and added support for more 
advanced features

Just as an asdie, one of the best dialects of BASIC was Mallard BASIC 
for CP/M. It had really advanced file handling support to the point you 
could have written a pretty advanced database in it.

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