macdonald@author.dec.com (At long last ...) (09/23/86)
Are there any BASIC compilers available for the Amiga? Paul MacDonald
hadeishi@h-sc4.harvard.edu (mitsuharu hadeishi) (09/25/86)
The AmigaBASIC compiler from AbSoft should be commercially available very shortly. At the moment the compiler is either in preproduction or in production. The original Microsoft AmigaBASIC was pretty much written by AbSoft, so they know what they are doing. People who have used beta test versions of the thing say it is very good. AbSoft's FORTRAN 77 compiler is apparently EXCELLENT; not only has it been known to compile and link 350K of VAX FORTRAN source without a hitch, but the resulting program ran through EVERY TEST in the book the FIRST TIME. AbSoft is a *PROFESSIONAL* company. Sorry to use so many capitalized words, but I just think a good company deserves a good rep. (AbSoft's Fortran is pretty much a Fortran 77 with many Fortran 8? extensions, including the most popular Vax Fortran extensions.) Note: AmigaBasic is a structured language that supports named subroutines, local variables in procedures, but does NOT support recursion. Future versions of the product may well support recursion. -Mitsu (hadeishi@h-sc4.UUCP)