scope:

This International Standard is designed to promote the interchangeability of BASIC programs among a variety of automatic data processing systems. This International Standard establishes: a) the syntax of a program written in Minimal BASIC; b) the formats of data and the precision and range of numeric representations which are acceptable as input to an automatic data processing system being controlled by a program written in Minimal BASIC; - c) the formats of data and the precision range of numeric representations which can be generated as output by an automatic data processing system being controlled by a program written in Minimal BASIC; d) the semantic rules for interpreting the meaning of a program written in Minimal BASIC; e) the errors and exceptional circumstances which shall be detected and also the manner in which such errors and exceptional circumstances shall be handled.