Since DOS 1.0, (IBM/ROM-)BASIC[0] & DEBUG[1] were the default programming
facilities.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_(command)
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I should leave BWBASIC right where it is. As it's for programming and
> DEVELOPING. As it's devloper stuff I would leave it in "devel". It makes no
> sense to put a devloping part from developing to the basic system part.
> Leave it with his brothers (ASM and C). :)
>
> Maarten
> ------------------------------
> Van: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org>
> Verzonden: 26-1-2016 20:49
> Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2
>
>
>
> 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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