Basic on UNIX - ...

[Mark Brader]

stewart at houxf.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-435 x0705) writes:
> While I normally disparage BASIC along with the rest of you, there are
> a few places it's useful.  I tend to use it for jobs that take too much
> arithmetic for shell, but are too small to bother writing in C 
> 	FOR I = 1 TO 43
> 		PRINT "FOO";I
> 		NEXT I

My preference would be:
	awk </dev/null 'BEGIN {
		for (i=1; i<=43; ++i) print "foo" i }'

Yes, the </dev/null and BEGIN are a bit icky, but you can type the
whole thing on the command line, and you have C-ish syntax, and
printf if you want it.

Mark Brader