[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 6/7/2019 10:16 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> 
>> Uh, ... NO!
>> 
>> Basic Plus was written originally, I believe, by a guy at EG&H, the "H" 
>> part of that company.  Early 1970s I believe.  Way before there was a 
>> Microsoft.
>> 
>> Basic+
>> BP2
>> VAX Basic
>> DEC Basic
>> 
>> The same product, with constant improvement and ports.
>> 
>> For many years the "gold standard" for Basic.
>
> Maybe I am not old enough.
>
>:-)
>
>  From later half of 1980's then Basic seemed mostly the MS flavors
> (QuickBasic, Visual Basic).
>

Neither of you have gone back far enough. :-)

The first BASIC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC

Simon.

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