Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cheviot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!robert From: robert@cheviot.UUCP (Robert Stroud) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Another Basic. Message-ID: <275@cheviot.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 11:37:11 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.275 Posted: Fri Mar 1 11:37:11 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 04:51:13 EST References: <2778@dartvax.UUCP> <775@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Reply-To: robert@cheviot.UUCP (Robert Stroud) Distribution: net Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Lines: 30 Summary: In article <775@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Praiser of Bob) writes: > >I'll say the latest ANSII standard BASIC is a far cry from anything running >on a micro. As far as I know, it's a far cry from anything running, period. >(Well, PL/I may be an exception :-). Does anybody know if anyone has tried >to build an ANSI standard BASIC system (compiler, interpreter, whatever)? I believe that a new British micro, the Elan Enterprise runs something that's pretty close to ANSI Basic. It sells for around 250 pounds (or dollars :-)! According to the review in the November 1984 copy of Personal Computer World that I am basing this on.... "The Basic is supplied on a cartridge & is a version of ANSI standard Basic, extended (sic!) with structured features, graphics, sound and links to the operating system". Mind you, it runs pretty slowly! Another British first?? (:-) > >