"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > (GOSUB, eww. PROC was the only way forwards :-) )
>
> Not on the Amstrad CPC 6128 I was toying around with ;)
>
> Locomotive Basic 1.1 ((C) 1985 if I remember correctly...)

I suspected it probably wasn't Acorn BASIC. The interpreter didn't worry about
LETs, and didn't say Ready at every prompt. Definitely a contemporary though!

> I ended up writing a parser for the old Sinix Basic code that would
> auto-generate a VBA module, and a library of subroutines that would simulate
> the Sinix Basic's formatted input, output and file access functions with all
> their peculiarities...

Good job.

Whoops, this is veering a little off-topic now... :)

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