Editing Vilnius BASIC (section)

{{Short description|Dialect of the BASIC programming language}}
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|paradigm = [[imperative programming|imperative]], [[algorithmic programming|algorithmic]]
|year = {{Start date and age|1986}}
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|dialects = [[BASIC]]-86, BASIC-88
|influenced_by = [[MSX BASIC]]
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[[Image:Basic-Vilnus.png|thumb|256px|Vilnius BASIC on BK-0010-01]]

'''Vilnius BASIC''', sometimes known as '''BK BASIC''', is a dialect of the [[BASIC]] [[programming language]] running on the [[Elektronika]] [[Elektronika BK-0010|BK-0010-01/BK-0011M]] and [[UKNC]] computers. It was developed at [[Vilnius University]], located in [[Lithuania]] which was a republic of the [[Soviet Union]] at the time.

In contrast to most [[microcomputer]] dialects of BASIC of the era, which were [[BASIC interpreter|interpreters]], Vilnius BASIC was a [[compile and go]] language that compiled the source when the user entered the <code>RUN</code> command. It was otherwise similar to [[GW-BASIC]] and [[MSX BASIC]] in style and most features, although it lacked some of the multimedia commands found in MSX. One oddity was that it did not allow more than one statement on a single line, a feature normally implemented using the colon. It also lacked the ability to open more than one data file at a time.

Only the UKNC version had a [[full screen editor|full-screen editor]], versions of the 0010 series machines used a [[line editor]]. [[Machine-dependent software|Machine-dependent]] features, like graphics operators, parameters, and <code>[[PEEK and POKE|PEEK/POKE]]</code> addresses were also different among the machines.