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Yabasic
Richly:
Why was / is Yabasic so popular amongst BASIC enthusiasts?
I've never tried it out but I know that many of you have.
It was really popular at bp.org
What is it about Yabasic that meant it had / has so many devotees?
http://www.yabasic.de
n00b:
I think a big part of its popularity for me was that sony created an official port of it to PS2. And at the time it was one of the best basi variants available for free.
jj2007:
I suspect it's popular because it's beginner-friendly...
Galileo:
I find Yabasic to be simple, coherent and well documented. Example source code can be found at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Yabasic and http://galileano.tripod.com/basic/YabasicCodeCollection.zip
B+:
Yes Beginner Friendly! but what does that mean?
Well Rosetta's description is good starter:
--- Quote ---Features
Language is interpreted.
Line numbers are not required, but optional.
Support for direct display graphics.
Variables have not to be defined before use.
Support old and modern (structured, modular, but not object oriented) programming style.
--- End quote ---
And then what Galieo said:
--- Quote from: Galileo on October 13, 2018, 08:44:51 AM ---I find Yabasic to be simple, coherent and well documented. Example source code can be found at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Yabasic and http://galileano.tripod.com/basic/YabasicCodeCollection.zip
--- End quote ---
These things were why I liked SmallBASIC so much when I first found it with a normal IDE.
Removing required line numbers made writing code much easier.
So the same goes for required typing of variables by suffix or DIM (but I don't think I would mind making that optional too).
Then there is having a community of like interest for sharing code (probably the main difference of opinion on code being dead or alive after the developer has left it).
Plus it's language was yet another variation of a language we are all familiar.
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