mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) (02/27/90)
Archive-name: basic/25-Feb-90 Original-posting-by: mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) Original-subject: Re: BASIC for UNIX? Archive-site: topaz.rutgers.edu [128.6.4.194] Archive-directory: /pyr-public/languages/Basic Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <9519@portia.Stanford.EDU> zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan Yolles) writes: > If I only had a BASIC for UNIX, I could do everything I need. Ideally, > it would be able to use UNIX shell commands, too, and have decent > string manipulation abilities. Well... I have two solutions for you... The program/language perl has very powerful string manipulation abilities, as well as a *very* powerful interface to unix. I am sure that you can get the current version on any of the standard archive sites, and it is probably up at stanford as well. I would think that this is a good choice. If you really really want basic, there is one implementation floating around... I dont know much about it except that it does exist... You can find a copy of the src (not a tar file) via anonymous ftp from topaz.rutgers.edu in /pyr-public/languages/Basic. /Bob... -- {...}!rutgers!mende mende@cs.rutgers.edu mende@zodiac.bitnet