BASIC in terminal?..

[Mac Osxtopus]

A friend of mine likes to program in BASIC before he learns C++, but he doesnt have a BASIC compiler. Does terminal have a BASIC compiler just like it does for c++? if so, what is it>? By the way, why did this forum dissapear from press3.com? I felt so ditched =(.

 

[Mac Osxtopus]

a bit of a more human explaination to a unix newbie? please?

 

[Mac Osxtopus]

well theres one problem, after following all the instructions i dont know how to use pico then run the basic programs!

 

[symphonix]

pico is simply a command-line text editor. You could, of course, use text-edit instead.

 

[Mac Osxtopus]

yes, but what command is it to compile and run the basic file?

 

[lethe]

ahh... remember ProDOS? the OS for the apple ][. it had a built in BASIC interpreter. in fact that is the machine i learned to program in. this thread brings me back.

 

[lethe]

according to what testuser says, if you use realbasic, you cannot run things from the terminal. if you want to run things from the terminal, follow his first tip. then you would run a program from the terminal thus:

bwbasic
10 input "What is the radius of the circle"; r
20 pi=3.14159
30 c=r*2*pi
40 a=r*r*pi
50 print "The circumference of the circle is ";c
60 print "The area of the circle is ";a
run
save "circle.bas"

the command to run the basic interpreter is bwbasic