CompSci for Today

[kallistii]

10 FOR I = 1 to 100
20 PRINT "Hello World!"; I
30 NEXT
40 END

That was the first AppleBasic program that I have written in over a decade! If you want to play around with AppleBasic, you can go here for an emulator that was written in, of all things, Javascript! http://www.calormen.com/Applesoft/

Thanx syreene for the link!

ttyl

Comments

[bradhicks.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, don't remind me of that nightmare. Does it still have no ELSE clause? Does it still have the bug where the tokenizer introduces bugs if there are an odd number of characters in the comments?

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

I am sure that it is an authentic implementation, but that it may have fixed any number of bugs in the original. Remember, Applesoft was a Microsoft product....

ttyl

[bradhicks.livejournal.com]

The original Microsoft product. The only one actually written by Bill Gates, if memory serves - which, as god-awful buggy as it was, speaks volumes about the guy who thinks he's earth's greatest computer genius.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

I thought MBASIC for CP/M was the original MS Product...and Applesoft was a port of that...actually, after a quick look at Wikipedia, it seems that the first MS Product was, of course, Altair Basic, from which both Applesoft and MBASIC were decendants.

ttyl