Date   : Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:42:52 +0000
From   : Jon Ripley <jon@...>
Subject: Re: Basic & BBC Basic

W.Scholten wrote:
> About BBC basic, I always thought after using it in 1984, that although 
> it was reasonably structured, they should just have gone completely 
> structured. COMAL for example also changed a lot and was around since 
> the early 70s, why not use a COMAL type language with keywords as in 
> Basic, and call it BBC_Basic. Now, I find that when trying things in BBC 
> basic I often feel it's not worth it because of the IF THEN ELSE 
> limitations for example.

BBC BASIC has come a long way since 1984.

BASIC V is available for the BBC Microcomputer series and has equivalent 
functionality to the versions available on Arthur and RISC OS.  Brandy 
BASIC is available for many platforms and is equivalent to BBC BASIC V.

There is also BBC BASIC for Windows which surpasses even BASIC V and is 
more suited to structured programming.  It is the only version of BBC 
BASIC that has support for structured data types.

The only problem I have with BBC BASIC these days is not that it isn't 
suitable for software development, it is, but just that I cannot write 
one program and compile it to run on at least RISC OS, Windows, Linux, 
Unix, Solaris and the various Macs.

Jon
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