[squeak-dev] re: Has anyone got a BASIC handy?

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Wed Oct 1 18:22:17 UTC 2014


On 01-10-2014, at 10:36 AM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:

> 
>> Found myself waxing romantic over this…
>> 
>> http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/index.php
>> 
>> First thought was "I'll just throw something together" but I wondered
>> if anyone had done a BASIC for Squeak?
> 
>     Maybe Carl Gundel has thoughts about it? Pre-Squeak, he wrote
> Liberty BASIC in Smalltalk. I'm sure you came across it in your
> Googling, but just in case...
> 
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_BASIC

Actually I though he did ( or re-did) that in Squeak? And let’s not forget that that some older version(s) of Squeak had an alternate syntax capability that let you write and see code in a rather BASIC like form. Personally I thought it a Horror From Beyond The Pit but it sure was clever code.

tim
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