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by pedasmith 2558 days ago
Yes, I program in my own variant in a calculator app ("Best Calculator, IOT edition") that I wrote. The calculator is programmable in BASIC; this is a surprisingly powerful combination.

Writing small programs to automate a calculation is something that should be accessible to everyone; when I created the BASIC editor and overall system the goal was to have as few steps between a user thinking "hey I want to automate this calculation" and having the program be written.

BASIC has a great sweet spot: simple commands, but still a real language. My version, of course, doesn't require line number and has real functions.