Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!bentley!hoxna!houxm!houxf!stewart From: stewart@houxf.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-435 x0705) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Basic on UNIX - 2 Products + general BS Message-ID: <852@houxf.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 23:44:03 EST Article-I.D.: houxf.852 Posted: Sun Feb 10 23:44:03 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 07:00:40 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 25 While I normally disparage BASIC along with the rest of you, there are a few places it's useful. I tend to use it for jobs that take too much arithmetic for shell, but are too small to bother writing in C FOR I = 1 TO 43 PRINT "FOO";I NEXT I I suppose I could use expr (terribly ugly), or K Shell arithmetic, but for a throwaway program BASIC is ok. The other places it's useful are mainly for memoryless microcomputers (a friend of mine had a 4K BASIC that ran on the Data General card-reader controller at Cornell), but I suppose FORTH is replacing it for those applications. Anyway, I know of two BASIC systems available for UNIX - AT&T sells a fairly sophisticated BASIC system (call 1-800-828-UNIX), and we also have an in-house product (part of the Exptools package) that was probably released along with the Toolchest Package announced at Uniforum. -- Bill Stewart ho95c!wcs AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ HO 4K-435 x0705 (201-949-0705) {allegra, ucbvax!ihnp4, decvax!harpo}!houxf!stewart ------ Sorry if the articles I'm replying to re ancient; we lost news for a month.