IIRC BASIC does have a portable language definition: ANSI BASIC, which is the old crap with GOTO and GOSUB that nobody in their right mind would want to use nowadays ...
True, I forgot about that. The nearest to portable I have seen is Bywater Basic. At least it is written in C and can be ported to most machines. However it is still old school - though less so than ANSI BASIC.
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