Quote:If i wanted to buy a book on basic, what version of basic is most like Sbasic? Qbasic, RealBasic, visual basic? does this version of sbasic have anything to do with Karl Lunk?
Pretty much, unrelated - other than being a flavor of Basic. No relation at all to Karl Lunt's SBasic for 68xx series machines (used mostly, now, for robot control). Nor the Structured Basic ("SBasic") developed at Dartmouth by the inventor of Basic.
SBasic is most closely related to Q&A Basic. SBasic is (almost) a superset of Q&A Basic. So the best guides would be the Sesame programming manual, followed by Q&A programming texts. After that, this forum is a great place for specific information and examples. It is regularly read by the author of the SBasic language and runtime environment, and the author of the SBasic runtime library. There are also a lot of examples posted here. Additionally, Inside Sesame (
http://www.insidesesame.com) regularly publishes articles about SBasic and Sesame.
SBasic does not support from Q&A Basic:
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field numbering (translated away)
multiple args to "X" functions
soundex functions
SBasic adds to Q&A Basic
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approximately 70 new built-in functions and subroutines
loop control structures ("for" loops and "while" loops)
variables
arrays
user defined functions and subroutines
several new events
device I/O