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Re:Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ... by drv on Friday September 30, 2011 @11:24AM (#3057316)
The actual QuickBASIC compiler allowed any case for keywords.

The lack of line numbers was a bit confusing too - my first inclination when seeing a BASIC prompt is to type

  10 PRINT "hello"
  20 GOTO 10
Aside from that, it seems to work as expected (at least in the quick tests I tried).
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Re:Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ... by sratner on Friday September 30, 2011 @10:15PM (#3059147)
Numeric labels also don't work:

  10: PRINT "hello"
  GOTO 10
This works though:

  label: PRINT "hello"
  GOTO label
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