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This International Standard is designed to promote the interchangeability of BASIC programs among a
variety of automatic data processing systems.
This International Standard establishes:
a) the syntax of a program written in Minimal BASIC;
b) the formats of data and the precision and range of numeric representations which are acceptable as
input to an automatic data processing system being controlled by a program written in Minimal BASIC;
c) the formats of data and the precision and range of numeric representations which can be generated
as output by an automatic data processing system being controlled by a program written in Minimal
BASIC;
d) the semantic rules for interpreting the meaning of a program written in Minimal BASIC;
e) the errors and exceptional circumstances which shall be detected and also the manner in which such
errors and exceptional circumstances shall be handled.
Subsequent International Standards for the same purpose will describe extensions and enhancements to
this International Standard. Programs conforming to this International Standard, as opposed to extensions
or enhancements of this International Standard, will be said to be written in Minimal BASIC.
Although the BASIC language was originally designed primarily for interactive use, this International
Standard describes a language that is not so restricted.
BS 7149:1990 EN 26373:1989 ISO 6373:1984 : Specification for Programming language — Minimal BASIC