[ANN] tbas, the new BASIC interpreter for UNIX, is out

[Antonio Maschio]

Antonio and Ian are proud to tell you all that tbas is out in its Alpha
version.

tbas is a lightweight console interpreter, that can deal with a lot of
BASIC statements, structured programming and modern features.

tbas is free, with sources and documentation. It needs only gcc to be
compiled, and a Linux/UNIX machine to properly run.

Try it out and let us know!

You can find it here:
http://digilander.libero.it/tonibinhome/tbas/index.html

Mail to ing.anton...@gmail.com

It's GPL: enjoy!

-- Antonio and Ian

[Bruce Axtens]

Hello Antonio and Ian

I am using the bash shell that can be installed into Windows 10.
Building is currently impossible, as below.

Kind regards,
Bruce.

uname -a gives

Linux BUGMAGNET-i7-ASUS 4.4.0-43-Microsoft #1-Microsoft Wed Dec 31
14:42:53 PST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

gcc -v gives

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8 --libdir=/usr/lib
--enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
--enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libmudflap --enable-plugin
--with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk
--enable-gtk-cairo
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre
--enable-java-home
--with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64
--with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64
--with-arch-directory=amd64
--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc
--enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3)

Running make gives

gcc -Wall -lm tbas.c -o tbas
/tmp/ccJvi5kc.o: In function `OPTION':
tbas.c:(.text+0x39ee): undefined reference to `pow'
tbas.c:(.text+0x4417): undefined reference to `pow'
/tmp/ccJvi5kc.o: In function `getFunc':
tbas.c:(.text+0x2115f): undefined reference to `acos'
tbas.c:(.text+0x2126f): undefined reference to `asin'
tbas.c:(.text+0x213b5): undefined reference to `sqrt'
tbas.c:(.text+0x213c6): undefined reference to `log'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21486): undefined reference to `sqrt'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21497): undefined reference to `log'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21519): undefined reference to `atan'
tbas.c:(.text+0x216cc): undefined reference to `log'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21794): undefined reference to `acos'
tbas.c:(.text+0x2191e): undefined reference to `sqrt'
tbas.c:(.text+0x2192f): undefined reference to `log'
tbas.c:(.text+0x219fb): undefined reference to `asin'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21aaf): undefined reference to `sqrt'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21ac0): undefined reference to `log'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21bb1): undefined reference to `atan2'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21be4): undefined reference to `atan'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21d85): undefined reference to `log'
tbas.c:(.text+0x21e7d): undefined reference to `pow'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22073): undefined reference to `cos'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22139): undefined reference to `sin'
tbas.c:(.text+0x222a1): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x222c2): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22356): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22379): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22507): undefined reference to `tan'
tbas.c:(.text+0x225e3): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22604): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22633): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22654): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22c95): undefined reference to `erfc'
tbas.c:(.text+0x22d48): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x230b4): undefined reference to `tgamma'
tbas.c:(.text+0x23543): undefined reference to `lgamma'
tbas.c:(.text+0x23664): undefined reference to `log'
tbas.c:(.text+0x23785): undefined reference to `log10'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24522): undefined reference to `pow'
tbas.c:(.text+0x2459f): undefined reference to `pow'
tbas.c:(.text+0x2466e): undefined reference to `cos'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24764): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24785): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24a21): undefined reference to `sin'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24aa5): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24ac6): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24ba7): undefined reference to `sqrt'
tbas.c:(.text+0x24fcc): undefined reference to `tan'
tbas.c:(.text+0x25050): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x25071): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x250a0): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x250c1): undefined reference to `exp'
tbas.c:(.text+0x25164): undefined reference to `pow'
/tmp/ccJvi5kc.o: In function `gregDayNumber':
tbas.c:(.text+0x30807): undefined reference to `floor'
tbas.c:(.text+0x3082d): undefined reference to `floor'
tbas.c:(.text+0x30876): undefined reference to `floor'
/tmp/ccJvi5kc.o: In function `printNUM':
tbas.c:(.text+0x310e7): undefined reference to `pow'
/tmp/ccJvi5kc.o: In function `setAddr':
tbas.c:(.text+0x32bac): undefined reference to `pow'
tbas.c:(.text+0x32c17): undefined reference to `pow'
/tmp/ccJvi5kc.o: In function `power':
tbas.c:(.text+0x32e97): undefined reference to `pow'
tbas.c:(.text+0x32ed0): undefined reference to `pow'
/tmp/ccJvi5kc.o:tbas.c:(.text+0x32f92): more undefined references to
`pow' follow
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [tbas] Error 1

[Marcos Cruz]

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.basic.misc.]

En/Je/On 2017-09-23, Antonio Maschio <ing.anton...@gmail.com>
escribi'o/skribis/wrote:

> Antonio and Ian are proud to tell you all that tbas is out in its Alpha
> version.

> tbas is a lightweight console interpreter, that can deal with a lot of
> BASIC statements, structured programming and modern features.
>
> tbas is free, with sources and documentation. It needs only gcc to be
> compiled, and a Linux/UNIX machine to properly run.

My first impressions:

tbas compiled like a charm on Raspbian. The documentation is excellent.
And even a Vim syntax file is included!

The language provides modern `do loop` structures, a versatile `sub` and
many other useful features.

I've searched the manual for `locate` and `merge`, but it seems they are
still missing from this alpha version, right?

The `man` page seems to suggest the input file is optional, since it is
showed in brackets, but it's mandatory. Will a future version of tbas
provide a command line interface?

It's the first time I see patterns of `using` based on a numbered line,
marked with `:` or `image`. It looks an unusual syntax, but may be it's
useful to make the code more legible in some cases. By the way, I always
wondered why the classic BASIC's `using` is just a modifier of `print`
instead of an independent function, say `using$()`, which would be more
versatile.

Finally, the non-standard special characters "&" (suspend loading) and
"@" (stop loading) seem useful to include source documentation, but why
two of them? I mean, maybe "&" could suspend loading not only until the
next "&", but also until the end of file -- whatever comes first, thus
making "@" almost unnecessary.

I'll try tbas further and I'll follow its development.

Congratulations to the tbas team!

[mva...@gmail.com]

Any chance on getting a windows build for this? Sounds interesting.

On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 3:23:03 AM UTC-4, Antonio Maschio wrote:
> Antonio and Ian are proud to tell you all that tbas is out in its Alpha
> version.
>
> tbas is a lightweight console interpreter, that can deal with a lot of
> BASIC statements, structured programming and modern features.
>
> tbas is free, with sources and documentation. It needs only gcc to be
> compiled, and a Linux/UNIX machine to properly run.
>
> Try it out and let us know!
>
> You can find it here:
> http://digilander.libero.it/tonibinhome/tbas/index.html
>
>

[Antonio Maschio]

On 29/01/18 22:43, mva...@gmail.com wrote:
> Any chance on getting a windows build for this?

Sure. Check the site.

-- Antonio