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Re: 2,000 Basics?(Re: What is advanced? (was Re: Pascal to Basic converter))

#805
From: Kevin Handy
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <01bc1f78$4ecc9c20$86c07182@dixond.McMaster>, 
dixon@dogwood.physics.mcmaster.ca says...
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>Michael Martinez <michaelm@basis.com> wrote in article 
>>Michael Martinez wrote:
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>>> BASIC runs in over 1,000 implementations -- over 2,000 by some
>estimates.
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>What do you think should we start a list?  Here are the Basics I am using
>or have used in the past.  Although you can argue over how BASIC some of
>them are the all have a BASIC flavour.
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>VAX BASIC

Don't forget VAX Basics predesors
BASIC/PLUS
BASIC/PLUS+2

>Shepardson Basic
>BASICA
>MS BASIC
>GWBASIC
>Turbo BASIC
>QuickBASIC
>QBASIC
>dBase 
>Clipper
>Force (Half BASIC, mixed with a little C and Pascal)
>UDF - An industrial BASIC used in building control systems (HVAC)
>Enable Basic a TurboCAD V3.0 script language
>Novell's Script Language (looks like BASIC to me)
>ORACLE
>SQL (Sorta)
>ProComm Script
>MicroSoft's Dial up Script
>Visual Basic
>VB Application
>VBScript
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>Grant

SBASIC (Came with many KAYPRO's)
CBASIC

And all of the basic variants built into early "home computers"

Commodore
Sinclair/Timex
Apple II
Exedy Sorcerer
TRS-80
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From: kth@srv.net (Kevin Handy)
Subject: Re: 2,000 Basics?(Re: What is advanced? (was Re: Pascal to Basic converter))
Date: 1997/02/21
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