From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 5 10:53:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03794 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:53:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03762 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:53:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02708; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:52:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20105; Tue, 5 May 1998 10:52:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805051752.KAA20105@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: C-BASIC anyone? (only oldies need apply :-) In-Reply-To: from Tim Vanderhoek at "May 4, 98 09:37:18 pm" To: ac199@hwcn.org Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 10:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Cc: josh@quick.net, julian@whistle.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Tim Vanderhoek: > [moved to -chat] > > On Mon, 4 May 1998, Josh Gilliam wrote: > > > There is a QuickBASIC to C translator at > > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/basic/qb2c.tgz > > > > It isn't very useful but has Berkeley-style licensing. > > 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? gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message