Hi,
You can use CASIO Basic with fx-5800P. This language is minimal Basic but considering hardware performance (CPU clock, etc) the function is good enough. fx-5800P, fx-9860G, fx-9860GII, fx-CG10 and fx-FD10 Pro has 'New Generation' of CASIO Basic and there is compatibility. fx-5800P CASIO Basic has limitation, less commands than otheres, for example, it has no string handling commands, no I/O commands, etc.
If you cope with the limitation, you can still make useful programs.
CASIO Basic has a couple of 'dialects', those are old commands which has been prepared for old CASIO calcs as follows;
? (input command)
" " (output command)
=> (jump command)
CASIO Basic has -> command for substitution.
When you want to substitute 10 to variable A, probably you write A=10. With CASIO Basic you should write 10->A
All other commands of CASIO Basic is very similar to ordinary Basic languages.
There are, If, For, While, Do, Break, Return, etc. Probably you are familiar with those commands, something may be deferent from FORTRAN, but should be similar.
With CASIO Basic there is 2 commands for input; ? (see above) and Getkey command.
Also there are 2 output commands; " " and Locate command.
If you want to write as exactly required in your question, program is as follows;
"what is your born year"?A
"what is your father's year"?B
"your father was"
""
Locate 1,4,A-B
Locate 4,4,"years old"
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The usage of input command, ? here is different from pan.gejt's solution, please see there is no '->'.
If you compare with the "bla bla bla"?->A and "bla bla bla"?A, you will see deference from their output.
With fx-5800P and fx-FD10 Pro you can use "bla bla bla"?A, but cannot do with fx-9860(GII) and fxCG10. This is a good example there still be dialect on old commands.
But please note Basic commands are almost 100% compatible.
" " (output) command also send carriage return and line feed. "" does output NO caracters but send carriage return and line feed only.
Please try!
Edited by Krtyski, 20 March 2015 - 09:42 AM.
