I recently did a project involving the "Mint BASIC" embedded in the NextMove ESB-2 motion controllers from ABB. The BASIC was used to communicate between the

I recently did a project involving the "Mint BASIC" embedded in the NextMove ESB-2 motion controllers from ABB. The BASIC was used to communicate between the embedded motion controller library and a Linux system over an RS-232 serial port. Linux was running ROS with code in C++ and Python. The ESB-2 also had a USB port, but only worked with an Active-X control in Windows. So by using Mint BASIC we avoiding having to use Windows. Mint BASIC is a clone of VB and I thought the syntax was pretty nice. It had some weird things like a.2=3 is the same as a[2]=3. Also a[2,3,4]=7 is the same as a[2]=7, a[3]=7, a[4]=7.