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Chipmunk Basic

Chipmunk Basic is a freeware interpreter for the BASIC programming language maintained by Ron Nicholson. Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the Macintosh and publicly released in 1992. It has been ported to Linux and Windows. The "windowed" Mac version includes agraphics drawing commands. It also has object-oriented capabilities. The current version of Chipmunk Basic (and its spinoff products for Palm OS, cBasPad and HotPaw BASIC) is based on a public domain, Pascal implementation by David Gillespie. In January 2015, a Cocoa version was released that may lack features from the older Carbon-based OS X port. The most recent release is Version 1.368.2210, published Nov 11, 2022.

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Chipmunk Basic is a freeware interpreter for the BASIC programming language maintained by Ron Nicholson. Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the Macintosh and publicly released in 1992. It has been ported to Linux and Windows. The "windowed" Mac version includes agraphics drawing commands. It also has object-oriented capabilities. The current version of Chipmunk Basic (and its spinoff products for Palm OS, cBasPad and HotPaw BASIC) is based on a public domain, Pascal implementation by David Gillespie. In January 2015, a Cocoa version was released that may lack features from the older Carbon-based OS X port. The most recent release is Version 1.368.2210, published Nov 11, 2022.

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  1. publication date: 2022 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. release date: 1992 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "2022". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the release date is "1992". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335356188

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