Reply to post: Re: BBC Basic

Your kids' chances of becoming programmers? ZERO

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Re: BBC Basic

“How I longed for a version of basic that could be compiled rather than interpreted but that never came to pass”

Microsoft’s QuickBasic was a good Basic compiler, back in the day, although it wasn’t free. Nowadays PowerBasic is a stonking Basic compiler – again not free.

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