BASIC Anywhere Machine: first enhancements to the language implementation

[Charlie Veniot]

G'day,

One of my missions in the BASIC Anywhere Machine project: enhancing the wwwBasic.js interpreter with additional programming statements.

In the latest version, BASIC Anywhere Machine provides these three new string functions (screenshot below):

• NOW$
• TIME$
• DATE$

The TIME$ and DATE$ ought to be compatible with QB64, so that QB64 programs that use these two functions should work in BASIC Anywhere Machine.

The NOW$ function, that facilitates extra date-related goodness.

This project touches upon many big interests all competing for my attention:

• All of the goodness that is TiddlyWiki
• All of the fun that is hobby programming and teaching programming via BASIC
• Wrapping the embedded wwwBasic.js with an IDE and tools to make BASIC Anywhere Machine a single-file, online and offline, fully self-contained BASIC Programming environment
• Putting together a Programmer's Reference with TiddlyWiki; more TiddlyWiki goodness !
• Putting together a related Project Portal website, one central place to access everything BASIC Anywhere Machine, all things hosted by the tools that make the most sense for the task
• Enhancing the wwwBasic.js implementation with additional BASIC programming features (hard-coded right in there)
• NEXT: enhancing the wwwBasic.js with dynamic configurations set by a user/programmer via interfaces built with TiddlyWiki (i.e. widgets, filters, tiddlers.)

GOOD TIMES !!!