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Cybermonkey:
A few days ago I came across the MUSL (My Unstructured Scripting Language) interpreter. (https://github.com/wernsey/musl) It is a a small, embeddable BASIC interpreter in C. And it's freaking awesome because it's totally old school. Don't get me wrong, I also like  my-basic from Wang but it's growing too fat IMHO and becoming too "modern".
So I just started adding a few functions which are namely ink, paper, cls and locate (based on a Linux conio lib). Yes, it's Linux and console only at the moment.
Oh, btw you can (but need not) use line numbers in your BASIC script.
Classic "Hello World" example:

--- Code: ---CLS
INK 11
LOCATE 25,2
PRINT "Cybermonkey presents:"
FOR i=0 TO 15 DO
INK i
PAPER 15-i
PRINT "Hello World!"
NEXT

--- End code ---

One thing to notice is that the FOR loop looks a bit as if derived from Pascal. Anyway if you won't compile it from source, I attach a Linux x64 binary with the examples and my added functions.

Oh, I forgot to mention that MUSL is also used in the awesome microme project:

Tomaaz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyxm8cjMSCo

Aurel:

--- Quote --- I also like  my-basic from Wang but it's growing too fat IMHO and becoming too "modern".
--- End quote ---

Yes Cyb ..i agree.
Old ..first version of Wang is minimal...
also "modern" ..it is still just console interpreter, right?

Cybermonkey:

--- Quote from: Aurel on May 11, 2019, 05:55:47 PM ---
--- Quote --- I also like  my-basic from Wang but it's growing too fat IMHO and becoming too "modern".
--- End quote ---

Yes Cyb ..i agree.
Old ..first version of Wang is minimal...
also "modern" ..it is still just console interpreter, right?

--- End quote ---
Yes, with "modern" I mean things like OOP and lambda etc.

Tomaaz:

--- Quote from: Cybermonkey on May 11, 2019, 06:26:18 PM ---Yes, with "modern" I mean things like OOP and lambda etc.

--- End quote ---

Lambda? It's very important in Lisp and Lisp is one of the oldest languages.

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