[comp.sys.atari.st] PD gfa basic compiler

cliff@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein) (03/12/91)

Would anyone be interested in a PD GFA BASIC compiler?  I am seriously
considering writing one.  It would compile GFA BASIC programs on UNIX
machines, although I suppose I could easily modify it to run on an ST as
well.  

If I wrote one, would I have any legal problems with which to deal?  My
friend and I decided that I would not.  We figure that I'm just writing a
program which takes input in the form of a gfa-basic program and compiles it
and thus would not have anything about which to worry.  Is this an accurate
assumption?

If there's anything you would like put in there, or not put in there, let me
know (I'm only dealing with a subset of GFA-BASIC, mainly a simple version
of 2.0).  Graphics is out of the question, at least until I learn how to
program in X Windows in the next month or so.  

(Isn't writing without leaving prepositions at the end of a sentence lots of
fun?  :-)

 --Cliff 
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