Talk:BASIC-PLUS

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[edit] Merge?

See Talk:HP_BASIC_for_OpenVMS#BASIC-PLUS for merge discussion.

[edit] Command shell?

Someone just added the category "Command shells" to BASIC+. I'm not sure I agree.

While it is true that BASIC+ appeared to be a shell to the naive user, it was only processing those commands that were specific to the BASIC+ language, so "OLD", "NEW", "RUN", "SAVE", "COMPILE", and such-like. Other apparent commands that BASIC+ did not itself understand were kicked out to a system service that attempted to match the user's command to one of the known CCL (Concise Command Language) commands that had been defined on that particular system. (NB: I may have the processing order reversed: CCL may have had first-crack at the commands.)

So is BASIC+ really a Command Shell? Or is it just acting as a front-end to the CCL code which would be considered the real Command Shell?

Atlant 13:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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