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Craig Jackson wrote:
> 
> (Reply posted and mailed)
> 
> Michael Martinez wrote:
> >
> > BASIC runs in over 1,000 implementations -- over 2,000 by some estimates.
>                      ^^^^^                         ^^^^^
> 
> I find these numbers extremely hard to believe.  Can you provide
> us with a reference to substantiate this claim?
> 
> I'm not challanging your claim that BASIC has evolved into
> numerous different versions, each including many useful extensions.
> I just cannot visualize 1,000 distinct BASIC packages, stacked
> end-to-end.  Surely someone has compiled a list of these
> implementations somewhere.
> 
> -Craig
> 

  I couldn't support a claim for there being thousands of variations on
the BASIC programming language theme, but I've also worked with
literally dozens of different kinds of BASIC, and can testify that I've
not even scratched the surface of easily available BASICs - there have
GOT to be hundreds of different kinds of BASIC for hundreds of different
kinds of machine (I'm not aware of any machine or OS for which at least
one version of BASIC is _not_ available).


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