Quote Originally Posted by passel View Post
There are quite a few Basic interpreters and compilers out there.
Yes indeed

A number of quite different ones also happen to have chosen the name SmallBasic, the one from Microsoft (Small Basic) in particular was hot a couple of years ago.

Another one I just "found" and tried works well, and is a single executable.
http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net/
Surprisingly, it does quite a bit
Yes, SB is not bad. I have my own dialect, and study from time to time what other developers think. That VB5 clone is not among the most attractive examples, though.

Thanks for your answer, much appreciated.