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Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC

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On 2/25/21 2:56 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I was trained on CORC/CUPL
>>    Can you say I/O == "026/line printer"
>> I want to prototype a problem.
>> What BASIC in Debian repository most resembles "Dartmouth BASIC"?
>
> Your choices are yabasic and python3-pcbasic. Both of them try
> to be something like Microsoft BASIC.
>
> I would strongly recommend learning Python. If you haven't
> touched BASIC in the last few years, you won't be any faster
> figuring out a new BASIC than you will learning Python, and
> there's a far larger community of Python users.
>
> -dsr-
>
Whatever BASIC you wind up with make SURE it has a CASE statement.
Original BASICs did not--that includes Microsoft BASIC and George
Washington BASIC. I'm told that at least some modern versions do
have the CASE statement. About 30 years ago, I was asked by my
boss to write a program for him that had a lot of possibilities to be
addressed. He wanted it in BASIC, since he was familiar with that
language. Three pages later, it was done. I could have done it in less
than a page with Turbo PASCAL, because that language, as just about
all modern languages, does have a CASE statement. (So does BASH.)
PS--I'm not a programmer, I'm an RF Engineer, retired.
--doug

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Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-25 20:40 +0100
  Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-25 21:00 +0100
    Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-02-26 00:20 +0100
      Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2021-02-26 00:40 +0100
        Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-02-26 02:20 +0100
      Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-26 01:00 +0100
  Re: Looking for ~Dartmouth BASIC Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-25 23:20 +0100

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