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  1. Where are they today? by 3seas · · Score: 1 · on On This Date in 1964, the First BASIC Program

    http://www.truebasic.com/

  2. Re:FORTRAN - The ugly but lovable little SOB by skyphix · · Score: 1 · on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language

    My smalltown highschool also taught only a BASIC language - TrueBasic. I took it in my Junior year as well... which was in 2000. Unfortunately, after I completed school I believe they dropped all of their programming classes. I think I might've been the only one that actually enjoyed that class... even though it was taught by a math teacher that didn't really know the language but was stuck there teaching it because of the old mentality that "math majors can program, and no one else can".

  3. Re:Nice by stoborrobots · · Score: 1 · on Just BASIC 1.0 Beta 2 Released
    And what would procedures and functions be if not subroutines?

    (Note: many flavours of BASIC have functions in addition to subs these days...)

    You recall a BASIC without FOR? MBASIC in DOS 3.3 had FOR loops. Possibly WHILE too, but I can't be sure of it...

    And then there's
    Oh TrueBASIC, what became of you?


    I guess IHBT...
  4. BASIC language != GOTO statements by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Teaching Kids to Make Games?

    If you're referring to "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by E. Dijkstra, I find that paper's condemnation of the BASIC programming language a bit outdated. Modern BASIC doesn't use GOTO much anymore. Instead, it uses IF ... THEN ... ELSE ...END IF, DO WHILE ... LOOP, DO ... LOOP WHILE, FOR ... NEXT, SELECT CASE ... CASE ... END SELECT. These came ultimately from the same language where C and Pascal ripped off their control structures: ALGOL.

  5. TrueBasic by Mainframes+ROCK! · · Score: 1 · on REALbasic To Add Linux support
    It would be interesting to see TrueBasic (a Basic by the original creators of Dartmouth Basic), on Linux (right now they only do Classic MacOS and Windows). They are planning an OSX port, so who knows, maybe it will make it to Linux one day. Now I have never used TrueBasic (yet), but from what I have heard its pretty capable (well, for Basic).

    BTW, info (and source code!) for the original Dartmouth Basic is available at here.

  6. TrueBasic by Mainframes+ROCK! · · Score: 1 · on REALbasic To Add Linux support
    It would be interesting to see TrueBasic (a Basic by the original creators of Dartmouth Basic), on Linux (right now they only do Classic MacOS and Windows). They are planning an OSX port, so who knows, maybe it will make it to Linux one day. Now I have never used TrueBasic (yet), but from what I have heard its pretty capable (well, for Basic).

    BTW, info (and source code!) for the original Dartmouth Basic is available at here.

  7. Re:Clarification by shivianzealot · · Score: 5, Informative · on Water Basketball Robot

    That's incorrect:

    John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz invented BASIC in 1964 for use at Dartmouth College. They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers. It soon became a world standard. -TrueBasic.com

    You're probably thinking of this:

    In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. -http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp

  8. Re:Pretty much the same, I bet by SoftwareJanitor · · Score: 2 · on Rebooting The World?

    No... BASIC was designed by two college professors as a dumbed down Fortran for teaching.

    You can find these guys now at:

    http://www.truebasic.com/

    "John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz invented BASIC in 1964 for use at Dartmouth College. They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers."