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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by pjmlp on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:19AM (#29767824)
At least VB.NET is part of the list.

I guess the only modern environments where we could replicate the experience would be something like running MicroPython on an Raspberry Pi 400.

Or the Swift Playgrounds (assuming an external keyboard).

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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by AlexeyBrin on Sunday January 02, 2022 @10:19AM (#29769350)
Raspberry Pi 400 can run the full Python3 language, so why MicroPython ? IMHO, MicroPython is more suitable for something like an ESP32 or Raspberry Pi Pico.
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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by pjmlp on Sunday January 02, 2022 @10:43AM (#29769578)
I was thinking of running it bare metal, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico aren't a keyboard computer like the 8 bit ones from the 1980's.
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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by protomyth on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:18AM (#29768464)
Small Basic would be more appropriate than VB.NET https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/
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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by pjmlp on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:33AM (#29768568)
Have you read the article?
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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by protomyth on Sunday January 02, 2022 @10:20AM (#29769361)
Yes. I still think Small Basic is a good solution.
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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by pjmlp on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:21AM (#29780500)
As follow up to my sibbling comment, it appears that SmallBasic is pretty much done.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/678792/wh...

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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by pjmlp on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:12PM (#29773255)
Apparently not according to the authors experience, and looking at the Website doesn't look like Microsoft is bothering too much keeping alive.
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