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SmallbasicSmallBASIC (SB) is a free software (GPL2) BASIC dialect with interpreters for Linux, DOS, Win32, VTOS, EBM, and Palm OS. The dialect is described by the authors as a second generation BASIC, and has a lot in common with QBasic. It is a structured BASIC, and contains the most advanced math functions and operators found on graph calculators such as matrices and gauss-jordan method. It has been suggested that this BASIC variant is good for beginners. SmallBASIC was not designed to be an application development enviroment, but was instead designed to be a simple, lightweight environment for experimentation. The strong mathimatical support and inclusion of high level graphics commands like "chart" (which draws an automatically scaled and labeled graph of an array) make it ideal for for tasks that are too complex for a desk calculator, but don't require a full math package like Mathematica. The fact that it runs on PalmOS devices greatly expands its usefulness as a super calculator. SmallBASIC was designed to run on minimal hardware. One of the primary platforms supported is PalmOS, where memory, CPU cycles, and screen space are limited. The SmallBASIC graphics engine can use ASCII graphics (similar to ASCII art) and therefore run many programs on pure text devices. Fossil, Inc. is even planning the release in 2004 of a PalmOS wristwatch--with some changes (the screen is half the resolution of the basic PalmOS devices) it is possible that soon it will be possible to run SmallBASIC on a wristwatch. External link
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