From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 5 23:17:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19545 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 23:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19518 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 23:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA14726; Wed, 6 May 1998 01:16:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 01:16:36 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Gary Kline cc: ac199@hwcn.org, josh@quick.net, julian@whistle.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C-BASIC anyone? (only oldies need apply :-) In-Reply-To: <199805051752.KAA20105@athena.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 5 May 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Mon, 4 May 1998, Josh Gilliam wrote: > > > > 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? Never QBASIC. GW-BASIC was fun. But the best was good ol' IBM BASICA. 10 SCREEN 3 ooOOoo, yeah... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message