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The BASICA development environment was very similar to the integrated development environment used by Dartmouth BASIC. The user was given a prompt for entering program instructions. Statements beginning with a line number were inserted into the user's program at the appropriate position so that the statements would execute in numerical order at run-time. Statements which did not contain a line number were interpreted immediately at design-time. Some commands were intended to be used at run-time (such as LET, INPUT, WHILE and FOR) while others were intended to be used at design-time (such as SAVE, LOAD, NEW and RUN) but BASICA did not enforce these restrictions.
The following is an example of a session with BASICA:
The IBM Personal Computer Basic Version A2.00 Copyright IBM Corp. 1981, 1982, 1983
Ready. > list
Ready. > 10 print "please type your name"
Ready. > 20 input a$
Ready. > 30 for t = 1 to 10
Ready. > 40 print "hello "; a$;
Ready. > 50 next t
Ready. > 60 print a$; " you have "; str$(len(a$)); " letters in your name!"
Ready. > run please type you name john hancock hello john hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancockjohn hancock yo u have 12 letters in your name!
Ready. > system
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