Cause? Pure nostalgia.
In any case, there was a standard for Basic, which was published in the late 80s or early 90s. It was probably ISO / IEC 10279: 1991, but I do not have access to this and cannot be sure.
Regardless of this standard, some syntaxes made their way into Borlands Turbo Basic and Microsoft Visual Basic. I never recognized any significant amount of VB, but Turbo Basic is one of the things that I played with in my unsuccessful youth.
At one time, my main link was published in one of the main periodicals - perhaps in the "Personal Computer World", maybe in bytes.
Scanning this article (if anyone can even identify it) would be great, but all I really need is a short link to this standard multi-page syntax. It should be free (I'm not so nostalgic), but it should describe the standard syntax - the whole thing is to figure out what is standard, and not VB or something else.
EDIT The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that this standard is available in 1987 or 1988. Perhaps it was previously not a complete version of the standard above, or maybe it was a preliminary adoption of the standard.
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