On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/22/2016 3:36 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> > Regarding BWBASIC, current FreeBASIC is extremely cool while BWBASIC
> was small but
> > somewhat sketchy, I would agree to drop BWBASIC from the distro.
> >
> >
> Sorry, but you are here comparing apples and oranges.
> FreeBASIC is a compiler, which doesn't run properly on FreeDOS AFAIK in
> the first place, so you would have to do cross-platform development.
> BWBasic is an interpreter, which runs very well on FreeDOS, despite some
> shortcomings, hence should be very well kept within ant FreeDOS "distro"...
>
> Ralf
>
>
Agreed.
A note on history: we had moved the BASIC environments out of "Base" many
years ago, and put them in "Devel." We originally only had the one BASIC
interpreter (I think always BWBASIC) but everyone wanted their own favorite
BASIC. Since we already had a few C compilers and a few assemblers in
"Devel," it made sense to move BASIC into the "Devel" set.
I'm in favor that BWBASIC should remain in FreeDOS. Maybe we could move
BWBASIC back into the "Base" set, since it replicates well the original
"BASIC interpreter" concept from MS-DOS, and put other BASIC systems into
"Devel" or "Extras."
The BASIC systems currently in "Devel" are:
1. BASEC
2. BWBASIC
3. FreeBASIC
4. SmallBASIC
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