Bywater Basic: Difference between revisions

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A Basic interpreter that confirms to a subset of 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. Someone released a v3 for MS Windows in 2015, but this is an independent development and does not have the features originally outlined for v3.

Versions

Current OS/2 version: Bywater Basic 2.50
Current Windows version: 3.0

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 2.x maintainer
Howard Wulf (Current maintainer)
Mentore Siesto OS/2 port

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-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.
+A [[Basic]] interpreter that confirms to a subset of [[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. Someone released a v3 for [[MS Windows]] in 2015, but this is an independent development and does not have the features originally outlined for v3.
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 * [[Mentore Siesto]] OS/2 port
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-* [http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST-WITHDRAWN/ECMA-55,%201st%20Edition,%20January%201978.pdf ECMA-55 Standard in PDF format]
-[[Category:Tools]] [[Category:MS Windows Tools]] [[Category:Linux Tools]] [[Category:DOS Tools]] [[Category:Solaris Tools]] [[Category:Amiga Tools]] [[Category:SGI Irix Tools]] [[Category:Digital Unix Tools]] [[Category:Open Source Software]] [[Category:Software written in C]]