I remember when ...

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.... personal computers had "basic" built into them as the operating system.
You could just type any program that you wished to experiment on and run it.
There are times that I have a mathematical algorism that I wish to test but
currently computers don't have a simple way to do it. My question is: is
there a way to write simple programs and run them? I don't want to install a
full blown system that actually creates programs. I just want to be able to
run simple routines such as calculating pi. About the closest I can come to
doing what I want is to create a JavaScript but that requires creating the
full HTML for the page.


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