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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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