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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jeffrey Henning (talk | contribs) at 15:44, 1 August 2020 (Contrasted tokenization). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The article is missing the following, at the least:

  • Useful diagram summarizing the typical architecture of a BASIC interpreter
  • Discussion of the earliest BASIC interpreters, which were written for minicomputers
  • Discussion of two interpreters that predated Altair BASIC:
    • One a government-funded project, programmed on a minicomputer for an 8008
    • SCELBAL, for the 8008
  • The ANSI standardization of BASIC
  • Support for computed GOTO, in Integer BASIC as well as Tiny BASIC (e.g., GOTO 100*X instead of ON X GOTO 100, 200, 300)
  • Add note about new graphic commands, perhaps starting with Level I
  • Memory maps

Done

  • Add table contrasting extent of tokenization

--Jeffrey Henning (talk) 04:02, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]