Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-28 Thread William Park via talk
Maybe not the original BASIC syntax, but you don't need all that much.  Read from register, write to register, some math operations, few control statements, etc.--William Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 2:07 PM, Clifford Ilkay wrote: On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 10:22

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher Browne via talk
-ish On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 2:07 PM Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote: > . I find the Elixir/Erlang stack the most interesting of the lot. > That does seem interesting. Is there a pretty tiny runtime for Erlang? I do recall someone doing a Kickstarter for a Pi-like board specifically attuned to

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-28 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2019-08-25 11:19 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: At work, I once tried to use TI micro board (launchpad or something), and to program that, I have to download their IDE and edit through that, because only it knows which headers and libraries to pull in. Ah yes: TI kind of went their own

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-27 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 12:35 PM William Porquet, wrote: > I've come to the realization that, in this day and age of hypervisors and > virutalization, Windows has become a rather complex and somewhat buggy > service that runs under Linux. Or is has for me, anyway. > > My CDN$0.02. > I purchased a

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread William Porquet via talk
I've come to the realization that, in this day and age of hypervisors and virutalization, Windows has become a rather complex and somewhat buggy service that runs under Linux. Or is has for me, anyway. My CDN$0.02. William On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 12:31, Russell Reiter wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26,

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 11:48 AM William Porquet via talk wrote: > "It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real > hacker to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful." - > anonymous hacker > > Still true today? :-) > I'd say so, considering the corporation

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread William Porquet via talk
"It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real hacker to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful." - anonymous hacker Still true today? :-) On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 11:43, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2019-08-26 11:34 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > > >

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-08-26 11:34 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:05 AM James Knott via talk, > wrote: > > On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This > > situation, after Gates

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:05 AM James Knott via talk, wrote: > On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This > > situation, after Gates et. al. purloined acadamec knowledge for > > commercial endeavor, was kind of "the pot

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 12:01 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > I nominate Altair BASIC! ;-) > > http://altairbasic.org/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC > Interesting how legal jargon influenced its development. Harvard at the time, did not have a written policy regarding authorized

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-26 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-08-26 08:49 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > Nobody likes to be called a thief and a parasite by somebody. This > situation, after Gates et. al. purloined acadamec knowledge for > commercial endeavor, was kind of "the pot calling the kettle black,"  > all things considered. Of course, we can't

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-25 Thread William Park via talk
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 01:30:15PM +, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > On 2019-08-24 10:21 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:17:36PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > >> This is not a place of honour:. > >> > >> https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic >

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-25 Thread Scott Allen via talk
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 11:56, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: >C++ is an object oriented language. Arduino boards are used to > execute simple procedures that don't require the effort of an object > oriented language. Arduino is an IDE and framework for development. One of the main intents is

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-25 Thread James Knott via talk
I nominate Altair BASIC!  ;-) http://altairbasic.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC On 2019-08-13 10:17 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > This is not a place of honour:.  > > https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic > > Go do some damage! > > > > --- > Post to this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-25 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 09:52:39 -0400 Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 09:30, Dave Collier-Brown via talk > wrote: > > Many of the very small devices are programmed in cross-compiled C. > > Or C++ Scott, Arduino boards are programmed in C++. C++ is an object oriented

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-25 Thread Scott Allen via talk
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 09:30, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > Many of the very small devices are programmed in cross-compiled C. Or C++ -- Scott --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-25 Thread Dave Collier-Brown via talk
On 2019-08-24 10:21 p.m., William Park via talk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:17:36PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: >> This is not a place of honour:. >> >> https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic >> >> Go do some damage! > You know, BASIC may come back to life in IofT and

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-24 Thread William Park via talk
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:17:36PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > This is not a place of honour:. > > https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic > > Go do some damage! You know, BASIC may come back to life in IofT and microprocessor boards. Because if you look at things you do with those

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-16 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2019-08-16 11:52 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | I've been spending more time with BASIC on Linux than I should recently. > > Why? Legacy code? I thought you knew me well enough never to ask why, Hugh. > I cannot think of anything better done in BASIC rather than in Python >

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-16 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | On 2019-08-14 6:34 p.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: | >    It was Northcastle Structured BASIC, and here is the article I wrote | >    on it for the TPUG Magazine: | >    https://archive.org/details/tpug-newsletter-23/page/n21 Chris J: Thanks for

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-16 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2019-08-14 6:34 p.m., Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: > >>> This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC. >>> Too bad. >>   ... >    It was Northcastle Structured BASIC, and here is the article I wrote >    on

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:07:00 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > | From: Stewart Russell via talk > > | This is not a place of honour:. > | > | https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic > > This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC. > Too bad. > --- I

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson via talk
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Stewart Russell via talk | This is not a place of honour:. | | https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC.

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson via talk
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Stewart Russell via talk | This is not a place of honour:. | | https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC. Too bad. That was my first thought, too, although I used

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-08-14 02:31 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > When one fellow in > the class was enough of an entitled twit (has anyone ever gained anything > from telling the class how high their IQ was???) his decks got > occasionally > defaced, or cards swapped.  Way back when I was learning

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne via talk
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 13:33, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2019-08-14 01:24 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > Oh, the good times of doing matrix calculations in Grade 12 "Computer > > Science"... > > Back in my Gr 12 computer programming class, we learned Fortran and used > pencil

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-08-14 01:24 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > Oh, the good times of doing matrix calculations in Grade 12 "Computer > Science"... Back in my Gr 12 computer programming class, we learned Fortran and used pencil mark cards for our programs.  The teacher would then take our cards down

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne via talk
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 22:18, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > This is not a place of honour:. > > https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic > > Go do some damage! > My first assumption had been that this wouldn't have any access out into the filesystem. Oh, my, given that it does allow opening

Re: [GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-14 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Stewart Russell via talk | This is not a place of honour:. | | https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic This doesn't have the Waterloo BASIC extensions to Commodore BASIC. Too bad. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

[GTALUG] For Chris: Commodore BASIC as a scripting language

2019-08-13 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
This is not a place of honour:. https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic Go do some damage! --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk