Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 01:16:36 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, josh@quick.net, julian@whistle.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C-BASIC anyone? (only oldies need apply :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506011532.24435r-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199805051752.KAA20105@athena.tera.com>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 May 1998, Josh Gilliam wrote:
> >
> > 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?
Never QBASIC.
GW-BASIC was fun.
But the best was good ol' IBM BASICA.
10 SCREEN 3
ooOOoo, yeah...
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