Mobile BASIC

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Mobile BASIC is a proprietary dialect of the BASIC programming language that can be used to program Java-enabled mobile phones. This is possible because the interpreter is a MIDlet. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Knight, Matthew R. (2004-12-30). "BASIC Goes Mobile". QB Express #5. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  2. "Mobile Basic 2.1 build 13213". ShareApp. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
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