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From: cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: Basic for NeXT
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Date: 19 Nov 90 19:23:03 GMT
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In article <11220@milton.u.washington.edu> cyliao@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Chun
-Yao Liao) writes:
>In article <1990Nov13.054856.2988@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucnough) writes:

	notice these 

>Sort of.  There is a BASIC that comes a s an example of p2c translator.
>I guess it was a BASIC system written in pascal. The p2c translate the

>pascal source to C and compile it with cc.  Anyway, I didn't do any 
>"intensive" test to see if it's a "full" functionning BASIC, but I
>tried some simple program, and it worked.

The only problem I have with this is why would you want to translate?
If you are going to translate BASIC to Pascal and then to C, you kind of miss
the point of BASIC anyway (or one of the main points).  BASIC is interepreted
(usually).  No compile time. And you know where your errors are with your
code because it hangs at a specific, and known, line.  Translating to Pascal
preserves none of this.

	Ok, my fault, I went too quickly, what I was saing was that the basic
	system is written in Pascal.  The p2c uses it as an example
	to demonstrate the capability of p2c.  However, the running BASIC
	IS an interpreted basic system.

My purpose is not to flame.  Chun-Yao wanted to know if there was BASIC on the
NeXT.  Philip told him the closest thing he knew that ws available.  My 
	
	oops, a confusion here. It was Philip who wanted to know if there was
	BASIC on the NeXT, and I (Chun Yao) told him about the
	one comes with p2c.

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