I think you missed my point. Microsoft BASIC is a dialect consisting of a couple dozen BASIC implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC htt

I think you missed my point. Microsoft BASIC is a dialect consisting of a couple dozen BASIC implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC And clicking any of those will list them as a "Microsoft BASIC" dialect. This list lists them independently as their own dialects. I just found that slightly humorous. It wasn't intended as anything more. If you want to be serious about it, I agree with you. Each of those is different enough that they certainly could be considered their own languages and "Microsoft BASIC" a superset (akin to Pascal, Ada, Oberon, Modula, etc all being "Wirth-languages") vs "dialect".