User talk:Ssmitch45

S BASIC

Hi, I noticed your S BASIC category and that you provided some samples but that they don't appear on the S BASIC page.
I think that is because the Header template needs to say S_BASIC or S BASIC to match the category name.
I changed a couple of the samples and they now appear in the Pages in "S BASIC" section of the category.

The language looks interesting - is there any documentation? --Tigerofdarkness (talk) 17:32, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, well the fundamental problem is that the correct name of the language is S-BASIC (with a hyphen), but somehow in adding it to the list of supported languages, I held the shift key down, producing S_BASIC (with an underscore, which the site software converted to a space). But when adding program examples, I used the correct name for the language in the header, which is why links to those examples don't appear on the language page. Sigh. I have unable to figure out how to correct the original error on the language page. I agree that the language is quite interesting -- many very advanced features for its day, along with some curious omissions (for example, no end-of-file function, and no ability to pass arrays as parameters to functions or procedures). The only documentation is a user manual that was pretty cryptic even by the lamentable standards of the day. If I find the time, I will dig out my copy and scan it so I can post it on one or more of the web sites that still support the CP/M operating system.

Hi again - I discovered how to rename a page and I've renamed Category:S_BASIC to Category:S-BASIC.
I've also put the two samples that I changed the language of (100 Doors and Sieve Of Eratosthanes) back to S-BASIC.
The S-BASIC page now shows 12 samples.
I hope you don't mind me doing this - I like the look of S-BASIC and I find it disappointing if a language page doesn't have any samples...
--Tigerofdarkness (talk) 18:45, 23 June 2020 (UTC)