kevenb (02/02/83)
Does anyone have a copy of unix bas, the BASIC which runs on unix. We have 4.1bsd and would like to find a copy of the source code for our system. Any help would be great, and even an early version would be O.K. Thanks. Keven Boyett tektronix!tekid!kevenb
dwm@pur-ee.UUCP (Meeks) (10/12/84)
wanted ... sources for basic interpreter and/or compiler that will run on UN*X or information leading to such animals. Thanks ....... Dan Meeks, pur-ee!dwm
jhull@spp2.UUCP (11/06/84)
Just an opinion... anyone who ports BASIC to a UNIX system should be deleted from the net. For those who have programs in BASIC which they need, there SHOULD be (but isn't as far as I know) a BASIC-TO-X translator (where X is C or Modula-2 or ...) and the BASIC source should then be trashed. -- Blecsed Be, jhull@spp2.UUCP Jeff Hull trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP 13817 Yukon Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250
geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (11/08/84)
In article <228@spp2.UUCP> Jeff Hull writes: >Just an opinion... >anyone who ports BASIC to a UNIX system should be deleted from the >net. For those who have programs in BASIC which they need, there >SHOULD be (but isn't as far as I know) a BASIC-TO-X translator (where >X is C or Modula-2 or ...) and the BASIC source should then be >trashed. Have you ever seen the output of a Y-to-X translator? Not a pretty sight, especially to the person who gets stuck with maintaining the X code. -- Geoff Kuenning First Systems Corporation ...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff
perry@heurikon.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) (11/09/84)
> Just an opinion... > anyone who ports BASIC to a UNIX system should be deleted from the > net. For those who have programs in BASIC which they need, there > SHOULD be (but isn't as far as I know) a BASIC-TO-X translator (where > X is C or Modula-2 or ...) and the BASIC source should then be > trashed. > > -- > Blecsed Be, > > jhull@spp2.UUCP Jeff Hull > trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP 13817 Yukon Ave. > Hawthorne, CA 90250 As far as opinions go, this one should have been kept in the mind that spawned it. I wonder if the author of the above is merely a mental light weight imitating the likes of Dijkstra. In any case to denigrate a person's good efforts based purely upon their field of endeavor (in this case the language they have ported) is tantamount to racism and indica- tive of a pitifully small mind. Perry S. Kivolowitz
bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (11/10/84)
> Article <198@desint.UUCP>, from geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) +---------------- | In article <228@spp2.UUCP> Jeff Hull writes: | | >Just an opinion... | >anyone who ports BASIC to a UNIX system should be deleted from the | >net. For those who have programs in BASIC which they need, there | >SHOULD be (but isn't as far as I know) a BASIC-TO-X translator (where | >X is C or Modula-2 or ...) and the BASIC source should then be | >trashed. | | Have you ever seen the output of a Y-to-X translator? Not a pretty sight, | especially to the person who gets stuck with maintaining the X code. We're a test site for JMI BASTOC, an MBASIC to C converter. I have so far found it easy to use and to put out rational C code; it replaces BASIC commands with C functions, sometimes splitting it up (as PRINT is a series of function calls in C), but easy to understand. The only problem I've found is no open-for-append function -- I will be adding that to my copy (they included the converter lookup table source, so you can add your own statements/functions; I have added the MBASIC-68K SHELL command this way). (Oh... two other problems, neither of which are BASTOC's fault. I had to change the INKEY_() library function (INKEY$) to use TIOCSETP instead of TIOCSETN, because we don't have TIOCSETN; and if you convert a program using ON ERROR GOTO, it outputs a statement-to- line map at the end, via a switch... and our brain-damaged C compiler overflows its switch tables. Oh, how I long for a VAX! :-}) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'
stuart@sdchema.UUCP (Stuart Oatley) (11/28/84)
Anyone out there who can supply me with a BASIC interpreter for 4.2 BSD? Stuart Oatley Dept. Chemistry, UCSD