dartmouth1

Dartmouth BASIC, Version One

Keywords

The very first BASIC ever written, with its 15 keywords.

Where it is/was used

  • GE-225 and Datanet DN-30, the pair known and sold as GE-265

Noteworthy characteristics

  • LET was required for assignments and expressions. A direct mention of a variable was not valid, as it became in later BASICs.
  • Every variable might be used as an array of 10 elements, numbered from 1, even without being declared with DIM.
  • It was not meant to create interactive programs. No INPUT, dear. The DATA statement was the original way to give something for the program to munch.

Environment and usage

TO DO: notes about the REPL or IDE used, keyboard shortcuts and commands, command-line options for compiling and linking, environment variables which might be set…

Extensions

TO DO: Famous libraries tools and extension packages made for this BASIC

Curiosities

TO DO: Historical notes, anecdotes, what people said about it

Influenced by

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Influence for

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Versions and successors

  • list of other BASICs

References

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