flamer@argent.UUCP (Jim Trethewey @mithril) (04/24/87)
In article <429@sjfc.UUCP>, cm3381@sjfc.UUCP (Chris Mckechney) writes: > > I know, I know..... Please forgive me for asking such a lowly > thing but has ANYBODY ever even heard a wisper of a notion that > there is a program to translate BASIC into *ANYTHING*????? > I knew of a BASIC to FORTRAN converter when I was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1976. The Albuquerque Public Schools system had a DECsystem-10 at the Career Enrichment Center on Mountain Rd., downtown, just west of where is splits off Lomas Blvd. This program, called "BASFOR" converted BASIC, for which we had only an interpreter, to FORTRAN, for which we had a compiler that had pure (i.e., sharable) code segment generation. They weren't on USENET, but maybe they are now, and maybe they still have it. --Jim Trethewey, Intel Corporation BITBUS Engineering Hillsboro, Oregon
josh@hi.UUCP (04/27/87)
In article <26@argent.UUCP> flamer@argent.UUCP (Jim Trethewey @mithril) writes: >In article <429@sjfc.UUCP>, cm3381@sjfc.UUCP (Chris Mckechney) writes: >> >I knew of a BASIC to FORTRAN converter when I was in Albuquerque, >New Mexico, in 1976. The Albuquerque Public Schools system had a >DECsystem-10 at the Career Enrichment Center on Mountain Rd., >downtown, just west of where is splits off Lomas Blvd. Still there... > >This program, called "BASFOR" converted BASIC, for which we had only an >interpreter, to FORTRAN, for which we had a compiler that had pure >(i.e., sharable) code segment generation. > >They weren't on USENET, but maybe they are now, and maybe they still have >it. Ho ho... They are not on USENET. I have offered to give them feeds and help them become USENET people but the politics (a hallmark of APS) have made network a bad word. Also, they are now running a VAX/VMS and so have non of the old software/hardware (offered it to me if I would ship it out). Sorry guys... > > --Jim Trethewey, Intel Corporation BITBUS Engineering > Hillsboro, Oregon I find it hard to believe that there are no converters PD out there. I wrote a bad one a few years back as a bet for a six-pack of beer. Did 9/10'ths of it using cpp defines. What kind of basic do you need a converter for? IBM/PC true basic (subroutines), Apple basic, etc... I don't have my converter (I threw it out) but the type of basic makes a difference... -- Josh Siegel (siegel@hc.dspo.gov) (505) 277-2497 (Home) I'm a mathematician, not a programmer!
beadel@oswego.UUCP (05/06/87)
In article <429@sjfc.UUCP>, cm3381@sjfc.UUCP (Chris Mckechney) writes: > > I know, I know..... Please forgive me for asking such a lowly > thing but has ANYBODY ever even heard a wisper of a notion that > there is a program to translate BASIC into *ANYTHING*????? > At the DECUS symposium in Nashville that concluded last Friday (1-MAY-87) there was a BOF session on a DEC BASIC+ to unix C translator. As I recall one of the people who attended the session said that the translator worked 100% for BASIC+ and something like 95%-98% for BASIC+2. I believe my source told me that the translator was the product (read $$) of some company in England. I can scrounge through my criptic notes and at least get you pointed in the right direction if you are still interested. Ed -- Edward F. Beadel, Jr., Manager {seismo|decvax}!rochester\ Instructional Computing Center allegra !rocksvax!oswego!beadel SUNY College at Oswego {ihnp4|research|allegra}!warrior/ Oswego, NY 13126 (315)-341-3055 {allegra|watmath}!sunybcs/