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==Description==
A [[Basic]] interpreter that confirms to a subset of [[Minimal Basic]] (ECMA Standard ECMA-55 later copied as ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC). As ECMA-55 resembles vintage [[Street Basic]] implementations, BWB can be used to port vintage Basic listings without much problems, the other interesting thing about Bywater Basic is that it has support for console/shell commands that is pretty unique amongst modern interpreters. Bywater Basic is implemented in C.

The original author had previously announced a version 3 of the product that was to be released in early 2000, that version supposedly featured a greatly enhanced Basic implementation and a CGI scripting mode, but it appears this never saw the light of day.

==Versions==
* '''Current OS/2 version:''' Bywater Basic 2.50

==Links==
* ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/basic/bwbasic_os2.zip Bywater Basic 2.50
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwbasic/ Project homepage

==License==
*Original v.1.1 code is in the [[Public Domain]], v2 was initially offered as commercial software but free for personal use and with downloadable source code, but v2.2 and later versions are released under the [[GNU GPL v2 License]]

==Authors==
* Ted A. Campbell (Original author)
* Jon Volkoff (v1 patches and v2.2 branch)
* Paul Edwards (Current maintainer)
* [[Mentore Siesto]] OS/2 port

==Publications==
* [http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST-WITHDRAWN/ECMA-55,%201st%20Edition,%20January%201978.pdf ECMA-55 Standard in PDF format]


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