title: Where can I find a quick reference for standard Basic?
body: <p>The reason? Pure nostalgia.</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, there was a standard for Basic that was published in the late 80s or early 90s. It was probably ISO/IEC 10279:1991, but I don't have access to that and cannot be sure.</p>
  
  <p>Whatever this standard was, some of the syntax made its way into Borlands Turbo Basic and Microsofts Visual Basic. I never learned any significant amount of VB, but Turbo Basic is one of those things I played with in my mis-spent youth.</p>
  
  <p>At one time, my main reference was an article published in one of the main computing periodicals - maybe Personal Computer World, maybe Byte.</p>
  
  <p>A scan of that article (if anyone can even identify it) would be great, but all I really want is a few pages quick reference of that standard syntax. Must be free (I'm not <em>that</em> nostalgic), but it must describe the standard syntax - the whole point is to sort out what is standard as opposed to VB or whatever.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong> The more I think about this, the more convinced I am that this standard was available around 1987 or 1988. Maybe it was the earlier non-full version of the standard above, or maybe it was pre-acceptance of the standard.</p>