19 Sep
2014
19 Sep
'14
2:57 p.m.
On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Roe Peterson <roeapeterson at gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, as a longtime user of BBC BASIC I was like: Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I haven't done a feature comparison, but there was an Extended basic plus for RSTS
that was damn near structured. Back in the day at the University of Regina, a computerman
named Kim Birchard wrote a complete (and really good) version of super Star Trek with only
11 line numbers?
That sounds more like an existence proof than a sensible way of coding. I?ve written lots
of BASIC-Plus code but it would never have occurred to me or my colleagues to attempt such
a thing, or to talk about it as if it were something worthwhile.
That said, B+ was an excellent implementation of a 1970s era BASIC. Since it was designed
for timesharing and character terminals, it didn?t do graphics, or sound, or other PCish
things.
paul
Just remember -- regardless of which BASIC you're
talking about. . . .
Basic-Plus under RSTS/E transcends them all. . . .
Wikipedia's page on it suggests it was less powerful than Acorn's BBC BASIC!