SmallBasic

If you want to rediscover the joys of writing little programs and doing fun things with computers you could take a look at SmallBasic. It is inspired by the tiny Basic interpreters that you used to get with your Commodore 64 or BBC micro and lets you write programs using a very simple language in a friendly IDE.

I’m a great believer in starting to program by keeping your focus on the algorithms and things like this can only be good. Although I’m not sure about the Goto statement figuring quite so large....

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/devlabs/cc950524.aspx

Comments

[david]

Hi Rob,

You might also be interested in checking out the real SmallBASIC over at http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net

Enjoy !

[Jon]

I’ve just become really nostalgic... I want to get my Amiga out and start messing around in AMOS or an old PC with QuickBASIC... oh the fun.

[Zoe]

Goto = GOOD

That's why they both begin with a 'G'

I just wish for the days of line numbers back...