[Info-vax] Back to BASICs

[gah4]

On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 5:35:53 PM UTC-7, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

(snip)
> There was one BASIC dialect that, looking back, seemed quite interesting
> (not that I knew about it at the time): it was called “GRASS”, or there was
> a version specifically for a Z80-based machine, called “ZGRASS”. 
> 
> It had no line numbers, function/subroutine bodies were held in string
> variables, and it also had foreground and background threading.
> All pretty sophisticated for, what was it, 1978? 

There is also BASIC09 from about 1980 that also doesn't have line
numbers, or at least not on most lines. It has the usual structured 
programming system that doesn't need them, but I believe it still
has GOTO if you want it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC09

That is for OS/9, originally on the 6809, and later 68000.