Need a BASIC expert

Daniel Seagraves dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net
Wed Apr 21 08:31:23 CDT 2021



> On Apr 21, 2021, at 6:19 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> It is not too hard to imagine a professional programmer who took a copy of
> Dartmouth BASIC and adapted it for this flavor of BASIC, but I personally
> dont have any reference docs about it or proof.

I’m not sure I would describe it as “professional” but at one point my employer did pay me to hack up a copy of Bywater BASIC to produce CGI headers rather than its usual banner. This was so we would have .bas files starting with #!/usr/bin/basic that were called as CGI executables.


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