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From: flamer@argent.UUCP (Jim Trethewey @mithril)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Basic => Anything
Message-ID: <26@argent.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 17:51:53 EST
Article-I.D.: argent.26
Posted: Thu Apr 23 17:51:53 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 01:08:32 EST
References: <429@sjfc.UUCP>
Organization: Intel Corp., Bitbus Engineering, Hillsboro, OR
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Summary: I knew of a BASIC to FORTRAN converter.

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