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           Programming, (sdf.org), 09/25/2018
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Who else can't get over loving BASIC? It was the first 
programming language that I ever laid eyes on, and the first 
that I ever tried my hand at. It was brought me into 
technology, which lead to a career of sorts.

No one that I know is under the illusion that BASIC is the 
best programming language in the world (though, if you 
scoured the www you could probably dig up a few that would 
fit that description.) But who cares? And seeing as how 
there is no "best" programming language anyway, why not 
continue to have fun with BASIC?

BASIC is great for very simple computers. It fits in and 
runs from ROM easily. There are versions with ASM source 
readily available. The language itself is easy to understand 
and provides quite a bit of functionality, even on the 
oldest systems out there (the CDC6500's BASIC is pretty 
nice!) Programs are pretty easily ported between dialects.

I do have a BASIC section in this gopher hole, but I need to 
expand it more. Recently I've been working on NASCOM and 
MBASIC dialects (very similar.) I also like QBasic dialects, 
for newer systems. I have poked around at many of them, but 
I'd like to compile some things for each, and share the 
stuff that I work on.

Yesterday- for fun, mind you, I don't do this for any useful 
reason beyond that- I ported a tiny game that I wrote in 
QBasic to teach my son, over to MBASIC. That was fun, and 
I'd like to post the results here. Keep an eye on the 
programming folder for developments, because I know that you 
love BASIC too.