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It's BASIC but not as we know it (codeberg.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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How about a BASIC that uses Labels instead of line numbers, and actual names for variables - some of the statements are different, for example instead of 'Input' labelbasic uses 'ask' (Each statment begins with a unique letter)

git your own copy at : https://codeberg.org/WasPentalive/LabelBasic.git

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[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There have been variations on BASIC that use labels since at least the '80s.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And variable names, too ... not sure why OP is reinventing the wheel here.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why doesn't [thing I'm not aware of] exist?

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Actually, I do use BWBasic sometimes. I also created another language, NewTiny, which is also on Codeberg. https://codeberg.org/WasPentalive/newtiny.git

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If only there were some way to discover information.

[–] agelord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Learning experience?

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because I did not have a wheel of my own? Because I wanted to?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But you can already use the wheel. You could build a better mousetrap, but instead, you made something else, but with fewer features.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep. I remember moving from the C128 to the Amiga and go ooh.

Still cool that OP is coding their own BASIC interpreter though.

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks Whaleross, I don't know why some people have to look a gift horse in the mouth.

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And this one is mine. Built on the ideas that I thought would be cool.