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A version of Yabasic is available for Sony's PlayStation 2. It comes free with the console in Europe and Australasia. The demo disc containing the Yabasic interpreter is a PAL disc and is not intended for the United States or JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honshese PlayStation 2 markets. It is recommendable to have an additional USB-compatible keyboard for PlayStation version of Yabasic because programming with a control pad is rather unpractical. Yabasic programs created on a PlayStation can be stored on memory cards for later retrieval or swapping with friends.
A sample Yabasic Hello world programA hello world" program is a computer program that simply prints out "Hello world!" on a display device. It is used in many introductory tutorials for teaching a programming language and many students use it as their first programming experience in a langu looks like this:
input "What is your name" $name
print "Hello " + $name