17 Nov
2021
17 Nov
'21
3:38 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:06 PM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On a less positive note. The professors who originally
developed it at
Dartmouth could never quite see there way clear to open source it. True
BASIC? pshaw :).
Yes, well, universities have always been all about the money.
There was a time when I would have loved to run BASIC
on linux, bsd, then
Mac and have it be consistent across the platforms, other than as a
curiosity, that time has gone.
Not so much. Bywater Basic (bwbasic), which is a much-extended clone of
GW-Basic, and a clone of Commodore-64 Basic (cbmbasic) are both open
source, TTY-oriented, and portable to most operating systems and Windows.
There are lots of other Basics around: see <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects>.