Hard as it may be to believe, BASIC is still widely used in transaction processing systems that run on Linux or UNIX. I support a number of clients whose vertical software runs in the Thoroughbred Dictionary-IV environment, which is a high-powered form of BASIC that supports structured programming. Not only does it have all the usual BASIC features, it includes sophisticated relational database capabilities used keyed index files that are able to manage millions and millions of records on a reasonably sized system.

During the 1970s and 1980s, an enormous amount of commercial software was written in Business BASIC, as it was often called, and much of that software continues to be used because it is reliable and readily customized. Try customizing your typical Windows business app, such as Quickbooks, MS Access, etc.

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Hi all,

In case you own a R-Pi, then you can play with an implementation of a very good (and quite efficient) BASIC here:
https://www.riscosopen.org/news/article ... hday-basic

This could be an introduction for some of you to play with a user very friendly operating system called RISC OS (i.e. simple, not so stupid, responsive).

Benoît