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

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 05:31:52 UTC 2014


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> On Oct 1, 2014, at 11:22 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 01-10-2014, at 10:36 AM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Strange OpCodes: YOGA: Exit Finite-State Mode

Tim: yes, it's rather like taking legs off of a dog. But could be useful if you have an old basic program to remediate and would prefer to replace all of those GOTOs with gradual as opposed to catastrophic evolution. 

--Casey


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