Differences - DualBrain/bsharp GitHub Wiki

In the process of building B#, there will be decisions made that affect potential compatibility with other implementations of BASIC.

Dartmouth

References: Documentation circa May 1964 and October 1964

MBASIC

Reference: MICROSOFT BASIC by Ken Knecht

• The [PRINT] statement does not support back-to-back string literals due to B#'s support for escaped quotation marks.
• String literals must have both pairs of quotation marks to be considered a valid string literal.

GW-BASIC

Reference: GW-BASIC 3.23.

• The [PRINT] statement does not support back-to-back string literals due to B#'s support for escaped quotation marks.
• String literals must have both pairs of quotation marks to be considered a valid string literal.

QBasic

Reference: QBasic 1.1.

• The [PRINT] statement does not support back-to-back string literals due to B#'s support for escaped quotation marks.
• String literals must have both pairs of quotation marks to be considered a valid string literal.