Editing SmallBASIC (section)

==Intended application==
The "Small" prefix in the name SmallBASIC reflects the project's original intention of being used with the [[Palm (PDA)|Palm]], a small hand-held device. SmallBASIC was designed for portability, and is written in [[C (programming language)|C]] with separate modules containing any code that is unique to a particular platform.<ref name="ascii-world">{{cite web |url=http://www.ascii-world.com/about-smallbasic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112084122/http://www.ascii-world.com/about-smallbasic |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 November 2007 |title=About SmallBASIC |publisher=ASCII-World |date=22 February 1999 |access-date=19 January 2011 }}</ref><ref name="gnosis.cx">[http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/palm_languages.html PalmOS Hosted Programming Languages]: Using the Palm as a Development Environment</ref>

SmallBASIC is intended to support the same sorts of applications supported by [[GW-BASIC]] and [[QBasic]] on the [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]], with support for drawing [[Geometric primitive|Graphic Primitives]] to the screen, creating sounds, [[String (computer science)|String Manipulation]], and displaying text in various fonts. SmallBASIC also adds functions such as "File Save", "Save As", "Close File", and "Open File" to the Palm, a device with no native filesystem. SmallBASIC is also intended as a tool for mathematics, with  built-in functions for [[Conversion of units|Unit conversion]], [[Algebra]], [[Matrix math]], [[Trigonometry]], [[Statistics]], and for two and three dimensional [[Graph of a function|Equation Graphing]].<ref name="ascii-world" /><ref name="gnosis.cx" />