I don't care about Microsoft's BASIC, in fact I don't care much about BASIC at all. It was a poor choice 35 years ago, it's irrelevant today. Or nearly so. H

I don't care about Microsoft's BASIC, in fact I don't care much about BASIC at all. It was a poor choice 35 years ago, it's irrelevant today. Or nearly so. However, I do find GPIB programming examples in what seems to be Rocky Mountain BASIC (HP BASIC / HT BASIC) in the manuals of measurement devices from the seventies to the early nineties. Analog electronics didn't evolve nearly as quickly over the last forty years as digital, so some of those instruments are still significant today (chiefly to hobbyists, but at least the HP 3458A, introduced 1989, is still produced virtually unchanged and is even today the top-end long scale-scale DMM). I like to see a OSS implementation of that dialect (for Linux).