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From: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (750025@Mohamed_el_Lozy)
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Subject: Re: Cheap Basic for unix?
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 14:36:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 14:36:10 1987
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In article <643@savax.UUCP> dove@savax.UUCP (webster dove) writes:
>Can anyone point me to a public domain (but working!) basic
>interpreter written in C to be used on a Sun 3?  Or an inexpensive
>non-public one?

We use a basic developped at the University of British Columbia that exists
in BSD4.1 and BSD4.2 versions.  By surface mail:

	Ms Susan Ertis
	Systems Analyst
	Biosciences Data Center, I. A. R. E.
	University of British Columbia
	Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5
	(604) 228-6527

Over a year ago I sent email to ..!seismo!ubc-vision!bdcvax!susan

It has a couple of minor bugs, but in general workd fine.  We have a couple
of old time users who use it for programs written a zillion years ago, which
they have no desire to re-write.

I also looked at a BASIC developped at the University of New Mexico.  It
implements, as I recall, the dialect used on large IBM mainframes, which is
very different from most others.  As it comes with a yacc grammer I enjoyed
modifying it, but have never used it as a production tool.  I was never able
to get email to them, surface mail to:

	BASIC
	c/o Tina Lopez, Development Group
	UNM Computing Center
	2701 Campus Boulevard
	University of New Mexico
	Albuquerque, NM 87131

Both charge a small handling fee.

A totally free public domain BASIC was posted to comp.sources.unix (or was
it at the very end of mod.sources?) a few months ago, I never got around to
trying it out.

I believe there are no CHEAP commercial BASIC's, there certainly are many
expensive ones for VAXen.  Do any readers have any comments on them?