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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by flyinghamster on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:13AM (#29768819)
Why not QuickBASIC or (for modern systems) FreeBASIC[0]? It can be used both like old-school BASIC with line numbers and such, or as a modern style with named functions and subroutines, and FreeBASIC is FOSS.

[0] https://www.freebasic.net/

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Re:Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era by fuzzfactor on Sunday January 02, 2022 @04:40PM (#29774223)
I really agree.

I see no reason to progress toward the non-BASIC implementations until the modern BASIC equivalents have been accomplished as meaningfully as the originals.

Using FreeBASIC would be closer to the way it was universally at the fingertips of every single Apple II, TRS-80, and PET owner. Soon to be followed by Atari and Commodore 64.

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