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I wanted to make a classic BASIC interpreter for Repl.it, and as I was slowly evolving it -- making line numbers optional, adding labels etc -- I discovered that I was reinventing QBasic!

Docs: https://docs.repl.it/misc/basic

Source: https://repl.it/@amasad/pg-basic

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I made a simple BASIC interpreter in golang, and one of the sample programs allows you to enter BASIC into a browser and see a PNG of the output.

I called that "visual basic" even though it is nowhere near the same thing!

https://github.com/skx/gobasic

I had way more fun than I expected tinkering with it though, made me very nostalgic for the ZX Spectrum which was my first computer.

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