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From: josh@hi.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Basic => Anything
Message-ID: <5175@hi.uucp>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 16:19:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: hi.5175
Posted: Mon Apr 27 16:19:31 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 01:48:52 EDT
References: <429@sjfc.UUCP> <26@argent.UUCP>
Reply-To: josh@hi.UUCP (Josh Siegel)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <26@argent.UUCP> flamer@argent.UUCP (Jim Trethewey @mithril) writes:
 >In article <429@sjfc.UUCP>, cm3381@sjfc.UUCP (Chris Mckechney) writes:
 >> 
 >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.

Still there...

 >
 >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.

Ho ho...

They are not on USENET.  I have offered to give them feeds and help
them become USENET people but the politics (a hallmark of APS)
have made network a bad word.  Also, they are now running 
a VAX/VMS and so have non of the old software/hardware
(offered it to me if I would ship it out).  Sorry
guys...

 >
 >       --Jim Trethewey,  Intel Corporation BITBUS Engineering
 >	 Hillsboro, Oregon

I find it hard to believe that there are no converters PD out
there.  I wrote a bad one a few years back as a bet for a six-pack
of beer.  Did 9/10'ths of it using cpp defines.  What kind of
basic do you need a converter for?  IBM/PC true basic (subroutines),
Apple basic, etc...

I don't have my converter (I threw it out) but the type of basic makes
a difference...

-- 
Josh Siegel		(siegel@hc.dspo.gov)
                        (505) 277-2497  (Home)
		I'm a mathematician, not a programmer!