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From: rloon@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: BASIC to C translator program
Message-ID: <3439@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 12 Jun 90 14:06:03 GMT
References: <1990Jun11.190944.23272@welch.jhu.edu> <1990Jun11.200020.5176@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In <1990Jun11.200020.5176@Neon.Stanford.EDU> jkl@Neon.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen) writes:

||In article <1990Jun11.190944.23272@welch.jhu.edu> glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason) writes:
||>
||>Does anyone out there know of a public-domain/commercial BASIC to C
||>translator program?

||I recall a translator called "Minnow Bear" that translated Digital
||Research BASIC to C. As I recall, it did is job fairly well. The code
||it produced was a Bear to read, though :-)

There is a program called Basic To C, which translates BASIC programs to C code ; it even tries
to eliminate GOTOs. Anyway, there's a PROFESSIONAL and a NORMAL version ; NORMAL will compile
up to 1000 lines. The same company released a PASCAL to C translator as well.

The code is not always easy to read, and integers without a '%' in the source, will be translated
to floats.

So it'll translate
10 x = 10
20 end

to :

float x_float ;

{ ....

  x = 10.0 ;

}

I can't think of the name of the company right now ; don't mail me, I won't read it till september.

Hope this helps though.
-- 
Ronald van Loon (rloon@praxis.cs.ruu.nl)

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