What about a BASIC interpreter?

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: What about a BASIC interpreter?
started by: Curious_One

Posted by Curious_One on Feb. 19 2004,07:19

I was just wondering if you might include SmallBASIC, it is available for Linux, is open source, and would be very handy for slightly less technical persons who just need to do a few quick calculations in BASIC.
< SmallBASIC >
Or maybe KBASIC?
< KBASIC >
I am sure there are others who would like a choice other than C. I also wanted to thank you for making DSL, I think it is a great distro! Rock on!

Posted by realmy on Feb. 20 2004,13:36

Although maybe not all that "usefull" in my eyes, I wouldnt mind having a play around with it :P

Posted by maybrick on Feb. 27 2004,02:02

I like the idea of having different programming languages on DLS, but it don´t really feels like a good idea if we keep with John´s idea of make DSL just a businesscard distribution.

I would like, however, to make links for the users, so if you install DSL on your hard drive (just like I do) you can install many apps that would not fin in the businesscard cd. A minicd with more apps (maybe with a full Mozilla installation or even an OpenOffice.org installer) may be a better idea for this.

Just thinking... I still can´t wrote with accents in my system and I don´t know why.

Posted by zeeb90aux on Feb. 28 2004,23:48

I worked on the ebookman port of SmallBASIC and have
just discovered DSL.

DSL and SB have very similar goals and I think the two
packages would make excellent partners. Having SmallBASIC
in DSL would allow the projects to share their user base and
mojo/inertia.

SmallBASIC would bring a many games and useful utilities
for a small footprint.

Posted by Curious_One on Mar. 01 2004,19:17

Maybe if SmallBASIC is too large to add, a tiny Basic interpreter like Chipmunk (http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/) at 81k would work?

Posted by Curious_One on Mar. 10 2004,02:38

BUMP!