Talk:List of BASIC dialects/Archive 1

Is this page needed?
I'm wondering if the page is realy needed seeing that we've already got Category:BASIC dialects. Ae-a 23:42, 12 May 2005 (UTC)


 * The main reason I established this page was to ensure that we'd have a "flat" alphabetical (i.e. quickly'n'easily navigable) and annotated list of BASIC dialects, in order for the reader to get an informative but still concise overview of all BASICs (known to WKP). I think that there is a real need for such a page, because
 * the category page displays the dialects by name only, and thus imparts no information whatsoever neither on history/origin, acronym expansion, nor platform(s) (all of which, when written concisely, easily fits on a single line of text); and
 * the List of BASIC dialects by platform (LoBDbP) is, to be blunt, (bound to be) somewhat messy in its layout, and not particularly well-suited to the task of giving readers a comprehensive and straightforwardly browsable overview of the range of BASIC dialects past and present.


 * To provide a clear idea of what I mean, I just copied the old flat alphalist from the main BASIC article over to this one (I guess I should have done so already, but now it's done at long last). Of course, I'll have to check for additions & changes in the LoBDbP, but that's no problemo, as I monitor both lists + the main BASIC article. --Wernher 22:31, 13 May 2005 (UTC)


 * See my commentary (under "Big Changes") in the talk for List of BASIC dialects by platform for more on this.

Recent revert
This edit made the article internally inconsistent, using the terms "Linux" and "GNU/Linux" interchangeably. This is confusing; we should use one or the other. It also reversed some noncontroversial copyedits. It should be reverted. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 19:04, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

BLASSIC - I recently browsed this interpreter. It claims to be able to handle source code limited only by memory. Appears to be Qbasic plus this feature - command line operation. 2601:181:8000:D6D0:52:7D20:512F:BA1B (talk) 14:38, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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switch to comprehesion of BASIC dialects
This is a list, but i think it will be a wise move to rename this article and build a comprehesion of BASIC dialects.

Since there's currently nothing to compare them to and BASIC has multiple versions that have been made from it.

FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 22:17, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


 * We have an article and some examples at BASIC.   D b f i r s   22:57, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, but perhaps having a notice on which versions are currently developed or open-sourced would be nice. FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 02:15, 6 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Agreed. That would be a useful addition.   D b f i r s   08:00, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps a draft could be created for this purpose. FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 19:45, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Here's a draft of how it could look. Draft:Comparison of BASIC dialects FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 13:13, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Workstation Basic
My first time posting. I apologize if this is the wrong place.

About 20 years ago, I had to convert data from files created by something called Workstation Basic. It was my understanding that this version was "network aware", in that multiple workstations could open the same files simultaneously. I can't verify if this is true, as I only programmed in it long enough to get the data out. My first thought was that it was created by Digital Research, but the more I think about it, the more I think that's not right.

Has anyone else heard of this, or is my memory worse than I thought? I did not feel comfortable adding it to the list without verification.

Browne92 (talk) 23:33, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
Hello all,

Currently this article is a mess as there's many of "dialects" of questionable notability. I would like to make a massive cleanup by removing non notable entries.

FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 21:09, 14 December 2016 (UTC)


 * The article certainly needs more references. Which dialects do you consider non-notable?    D b f i r s   21:42, 14 December 2016 (UTC)


 * A large amount of dialects lack references or links to other articles which makes it difficult to know if the dialect even existed or is notable. I believe that once references and links are added, it will make it easy to note which dialects may be considered non-notable. Probably after this is done a community consensus will exist and determine which dialects are notable. Main thing is to add references and let a community consensus make decisions on notability. FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 23:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I would think that nearly all of them could be referenced to some computer magazine, so deserve a mention in this list. I think it is reasonable to include, in a "list", all of those that have existed, and not just those that are sufficiently notable to deserve an article of their own.  It will take some time to look up a reference for each one.  What does anyone else think?    D b f i r s   01:06, 15 December 2016 (UTC)


 * It would probably work alright as this is a list and not an actual comparison of BASIC dialects. FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 17:31, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

I for one find the article useful *because* of the lesser known dialects, however the one dialect in which I was interested was listed without any description: SAX BASIC. I'm trying to determine it's relationship to WinWrap BASIC - a predecessor version of the same? BlueMonkMN (talk) 09:40, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

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EhBasic
should add Lee Davison's "EhBasic" for 65xx

https://www.google.com/search?q=EhBasic&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS984US985&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

http://forum.6502.org/viewforum.php?f=5

http://www.6502.org/users/mycorner/6502/ehbasic/index.html

still actively used, developed in the 21st century... Rqpaine (talk) 15:49, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

There is a proprietary version of Basic (Mint Basic) that is not included in the list.
There is a proprietary version of Basic (Mint Basic) that is not included in the list. The link to the manual is here: https://library.e.abb.com/public/9ec9c59478364ccfbef5fb85a4423c82/LT0255A03.pdf 68.251.97.129 (talk) 17:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)