Re:The BASIC Engine
by jarcane on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:02AM
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Sadly the ECMA standard for BASIC never really got adopted by anyone (and is now pretty outdated style anyway).
MS Basic kiiinda became as close to a defacto standard as can be described, just because it was the most common and commonly imitated.
In terms of a modern standard, there's quite a few modern BASICs, but the same kind of applies: Microsoft kinda leads the field. Many of the surviving projects are either directly or indirectly based off of QuickBasic and Visual Basic, or at least heavily inspired by them.
MS Basic kiiinda became as close to a defacto standard as can be described, just because it was the most common and commonly imitated.
In terms of a modern standard, there's quite a few modern BASICs, but the same kind of applies: Microsoft kinda leads the field. Many of the surviving projects are either directly or indirectly based off of QuickBasic and Visual Basic, or at least heavily inspired by them.