
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On 2019-08-14 6:34 p.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: | > It was Northcastle Structured BASIC, and here is the article I wrote | > on it for the TPUG Magazine: | > https://archive.org/details/tpug-newsletter-23/page/n21 Chris J: Thanks for the pointer. After I read your article, I looked at other parts of that issue. There were some authors names that I remembered, even though I wasn't a Commodore guy: Avy Moise (he was also an Atari ST guy) and the famous Jim Butterfield. | I've been spending more time with BASIC on Linux than I should recently. Why? Legacy code? I cannot think of anything better done in BASIC rather than in Python or Logo. And that's just for things in BASIC's niche. | Some of the actually useful BASIC interpreters include: Nice list. I have to admit that a good implementation of a bad language is often more useful than a bad implementation of a good language. PS: the most amazing thing about BASIC is that the first implemention was an incremental compiler, not an interpreter. One consequence was there were very few legal variable names (26 * (1 + 10) = 286). (Wikipedia says that the compiler was "load and go", but I think that is wrong.)