BASIC for UNIX?

[Bob Mende Pie]

In article <9519 at portia.Stanford.EDU> zimm at portia.Stanford.EDU (Dylan
Yolles) writes:

> If I only had a BASIC for UNIX, I could do everything I need. Ideally,
> it would be able to use UNIX shell commands, too, and have decent
> string manipulation abilities.

Well... I have two solutions for you...  
    The program/language perl has very powerful string manipulation
abilities, as well as a *very* powerful interface to unix.   I am sure that
you can get the current version on any of the standard archive sites, and
it is probably up at stanford as well.   I would think that this is a good
choice. 
    If you really really want basic, there is one implementation floating
around... I dont know much about it except that it does exist... You can
find a copy of the src (not a tar file) via anonymous ftp from
topaz.rutgers.edu in /pyr-public/languages/Basic.   

					/Bob...
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