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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>
To:        ac199@hwcn.org
Cc:        josh@quick.net, julian@whistle.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C-BASIC anyone? (only oldies need apply :-)
Message-ID:  <199805051752.KAA20105@athena.tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504213305.553B-100000@ppp6586.on.bellglobal.com> from Tim Vanderhoek at "May 4, 98 09:37:18 pm"

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According to Tim Vanderhoek:
> [moved to -chat]
> 
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Josh Gilliam wrote:
> 
> > There is a QuickBASIC to C translator at
> > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/basic/qb2c.tgz
> > 
> > It isn't very useful but has Berkeley-style licensing.
> 
> No unless it's really improved lately, it isn't very useful.  :) 
> I once wrote my own QuickBasic ->C compiler ("qb3c"), but it's
> way too embarrassing an affair to mention it here.  It does have
> a fairly good grammar for parsing QB code, though (only 3
> shift/reduce conflicts, despite handling most QB constructs
> (subs, multi-dimensional arrays, user-defined types)).
> 
> 

	Hmm.  It would be interesting if there were a top-10
	programs in QB that were converted to C.    Does anyone
	outside of M$ honestly use BASIC?

	gary



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