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BambooBasic, well, as it happens, that BASIC->Transpiler thing... Which is here:

BambooBasic download | SourceForge.net   <--- 12 years old now... OMG!!! :D

Anyway, while I was writing that, I never had a final name for it, but, on a holiday to New York, I walked past a shop that sold Newcastle Brown Ale, it's Blue Star logo was in the window (And being from the North-East of England, that of course caught my eye), underneath it, outside on a table, there was some plants... "Lucky Bamboo" plants... And, well "BambooBasic" popped straight into my head! :D

So, I've ultimately took the name of it and moved it to this, I find it fitting, bamboo is a building material, it can be used for all sorts, like scaffolding.. It's traditional so to speak... So, totally fits in lovely what I have now. :)

I know a lot of BASIC's like to have that "Jazz hands" type naming  convention, to grab attention... But, I like BambooBasic, seems warmer! :)

Dabzy

Hi,

It is nice to hear how you decide to use this beautiful name for your programming language! So good. Most new BASIC dialects have logos. Will you try to design a cool logo to represent BambooBasic in the near future?