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From: bbw842@leah.Albany.Edu (Barry B Werger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Is this Pascal?
Summary: Maybe BASIC-09
Message-ID: <1094@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 10 Oct 88 20:37:42 GMT
References: <942@naucse.UUCP> <653@pcsbst.UUCP>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <653@pcsbst.UUCP>, torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (Torsten Homeyer) writes:
> In article <942@naucse.UUCP> rwi@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier) writes:
> >
> >
> > I recently downloaded a 68,000 assembler from the Motorola Freeware
> > board.  It looks somewhat like Pascal, but if it is, it is a very
> > strange variant.  It may be CPM oriented.  Can you tell me 1) is this
> > Pascal? and 2) What are the syntax rules for matching the END statements
> > with the conditionals?
> 
> 	1) Looks like Modula-2 or some derivat.
> 	2) ????
> 		
> 		Torsten.
 I haven't seen the assembler but it sounds like it might be BASIC-09, which
is a special language written for the OS-9 operating system which runs on
6809 and 680xx machines.  How to tell?

Some BASIC-09 giveaways:
END statements are structure dependent; i.e., an IF requires an ENDIF, a WHILE
requires an ENDWHILE, a LOOP requires an ENDLOOP, etc.

BASIC09 has NO GLOBAL VARIABLES
Parameters are received IN the body of the program with PARAM statements.


Is this any help?
Hope so.
-Barry