BASIC implementation for Linux?
Nick Hutton
Hi,
After having searched for a few days I'v drawn a blank. Does anyone know
where I can get some kind of BASIC compiler, or even interpreter, for Linux?
Byron A Jeff
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.96061...@saturn.uunet.pipex.com>,
Well there are a few options:
1) In both my Slackware 2.3 and 3.0 distributions there is a basic command
that brings up Chipmunk BASIC 1.0. This is a basic interpreter written
in Pascal and comes with the p2c (Pascal to C) translator. It has a document
under /usr/doc/p2c.
2) Therer is another interpreter called By-Water Basic (bwbasic). It lives
on sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/devel/basic.
3) There is a commercial package called Xbasic that is advertised in the
Linux Journal. No clue about its features.
Hope this helps,
BAJ
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Benjamin Gonay
: After having searched for a few days I'v drawn a blank. Does anyone know
: where I can get some kind of BASIC compiler, or even interpreter, for Linux?
Yes, a basic interpreter exist for linux:
Chipmunk BASIC 1.0
by David Gillespie
I've installed it with the Slackware distib. You can probably find it in major
mirror sites. It's called basic
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Adam P Jenkins
Here is a list of basic interpreters for Unix that someone emailed me
a while back. The one below written by David Gillespie is Chipmunk
BASIC.
Adam
<http://reality.sgi.com/csp/ioccc/years.html>
or
<ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/rh/rhn/dds.basic.c>
Worlds smallest Basic interpreter. C source.
Obfuscated (IOCCC winner). Only 25 lines long.
Written by: Diomidis Spinellis <d...@cc.ic.ac.uk> 1990
<http://www.Uni-Mainz.DE/~ihm/basic.html>
A Basic interpreter written using flex, bison & C.
Author: i...@kph.uni-mainz.de (under GNU public license).
<ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/rh/rhn/basic.shar.Z>
An old Basic interpreter written in Pascal and converted
to C using p2c. PD. Author: Dave Gillespie
<ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/rh/rhn/bwbasic-2.20.uu>
Bywater BASIC 2.20, ANSI C source, newest version,
memory leaks fixed! (under GNU public license).
<ftp://ftp.eng.umd.edu/pub/basic/philbasic.tar.gz>
A Basic interpreter modeled after gwbasic. Be sure
and get the patches as well. This was originally written
by Phil Cockcroft when he was a student. With a few changes
and the patches this can be a very usable basic.
(Has anyone figured how to make the above run on a current
shipping *nix system (SunOS, IRIX, HPUX, etc.)?)
<ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/unix/unmbasic/unmbasic.tar.Z>
BASIC environment from University of New Mexico.
Include matrix commands. Mostly in K&R C plus a bison grammer, but
requires f2c or a Fortran compiler for one of the files.
written by Gary Klimowicz as Vax-Basic (pre-1990?) (public domain?)
Of the above interpreters, Bywater BASIC seems to be the most complete
and portable, but unmbasic and ihm/basic are 30 to 40 times faster
than bwbasic. I seem to remember an sbasic posted to alt.sources, but
it was a very small version of the language. Any others?
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Robert Woodcock
Benjamin Gonay (go...@goliath.is.belgacom.be) composed eloquently:
>Nick Hutton (ni...@uunet.pipex.com) wrote:
>: After having searched for a few days I'v drawn a blank. Does anyone know
>: where I can get some kind of BASIC compiler, or even interpreter, for
>: Linux?
> Yes, a basic interpreter exist for linux:
> Chipmunk BASIC 1.0
> by David Gillespie
> I've installed it with the Slackware distib. You can probably find it in
> major mirror sites. It's called basic
Oh, *THAT*. :)
Here's the complete sources (relax, it's not that huge. :)
I dunno about 1536 bytes, though, I'm figuring it at 2784 bytes.
/****
dds.c, 1990 Obfuscated C Programming Contest winner...
a complete Basic interpreter in only 1536 bytes
***/
#define O(b,f,u,s,c,a)b(){int o=f();switch(*p++){X u:_ o s b();X c:_ o a b();default:p--;_ o;}}
#define t(e,d,_,C)X e:f=fopen(B+d,_);C;fclose(f)
#define U(y,z)while(p=Q(s,y))*p++=z,*p=' '
#define N for(i=0;i<11*R;i++)m[i]&&
#define I "%d %s\n",i,m[i]
#define X ;break;case
#define _ return
#define R 999
typedef char *A;
int *C, E[R], L[R], M[R], P[R], l, i, j;
char B[R], F[2];
A m[12 * R], malloc
(), p, q, x, y, z, s, d, f, fopen ();
A
Q (s, o)
A s, o;
{
for (x = s; *x; x++)
{
for (y = x, z = o; *z && *y ==
*z; y++)
z++;
if (z > o && !*z)
_ x;
}
_ 0;
}
main ()
{
m[11 * R] = "E";
while (puts ("Ok"), gets (B)
)
switch (*B)
{
X 'R':C = E;
l = 1;
for (i = 0; i < R; P[i++] = 0);
while (l)
{
while (!(s = m[l]))
l++;
if
(!Q (s, "\""))
{
U ("<>", '#');
U ("<=", '$');
U (">=", '!');
}
d = B;
while (*F = *s)
{
*s == '"' && j
++;
if (j & 1 || !Q (" \t", F))
*d++ = *s;
s++;
}
*d-- = j = 0;
if (B[1] != '=')
switch (*B)
{
X 'E':l = -1
X 'R': B[2] != 'M' && (l = *--C) X 'I':B[1] == 'N' ? gets (p = B), P[*d] = S () : (*(q = Q (B, "TH")) = 0, p
= B + 2, S () && (p = q + 4, l = S () - 1)) X 'P':B[5] == '"' ? *d = 0, puts (B + 6) : (p = B + 5, printf
("%d\n", S ()))X 'G': p = B + 4, B[2] == 'S' && (*C++ = l, p++), l = S () - 1 X 'F':*(q = Q (B, "TO")) = 0;
p = B + 5;
P[i
= B[3]] = S ();
p = q + 2;
M[i] = S ();
L[i] = l X 'N':++P[*d] <= M[*d] && (l = L[*d]);
}
else
p = B + 2, P[
*B] = S ();
l++;
}
X 'L': N printf (I) X 'N': N free (m[i]), m[i] = 0 X 'B':_ 0 t ('S', 5, "w", N
fprintf (f, I)) t ('O', 4, "r", while (fgets (B, R, f)) (*Q (B, "\n") = 0, G ()))
X 0: default:
G ()
;
}
_ 0;
}
G ()
{
l = atoi (B);
m[l] && free (m[l]);
(p = Q (B, " ")) ? strcpy (m[l] = malloc (strlen (p
)), p + 1) : (m[l] = 0, 0);
}
O (S, J, '=', ==, '#', !=)O (J, K, '<', <, '>', >)O (K, V, '$', <=, '!', >=)
O (V, W, '+', +, '-', -)O (W, Y, '*', *, '/', /)Y ()
{
int o;
_ *p == '-' ? p++, -Y () : *p >= '0' && *p <=
'9' ? strtol (p, &p, 0) : *p == '(' ? p++, o = S (), p++, o : P[*p++];
}
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Rob Janssen
>Benjamin Gonay (go...@goliath.is.belgacom.be) composed eloquently:
>>Nick Hutton (ni...@uunet.pipex.com) wrote:
>>: After having searched for a few days I'v drawn a blank. Does anyone know
>>: where I can get some kind of BASIC compiler, or even interpreter, for
>>: Linux?
>> Yes, a basic interpreter exist for linux:
>> Chipmunk BASIC 1.0
>> by David Gillespie
>> I've installed it with the Slackware distib. You can probably find it in
>> major mirror sites. It's called basic
>Oh, *THAT*. :)
>Here's the complete sources (relax, it's not that huge. :)
>I dunno about 1536 bytes, though, I'm figuring it at 2784 bytes.
Probably someone has formatted it, and it would be 1536 bytes when the
program code was reformatted to 80-char lines?
Whatever, I cannot get it do do anything like a BASIC interpreter. It
just accepts any input and prints "Ok"...
Rob
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Peter Dalgaard BSA
In article <DtHz3...@pe1chl.ampr.org> r...@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob
Janssen) writes:
>Oh, *THAT*. :)
>Here's the complete sources (relax, it's not that huge. :)
>I dunno about 1536 bytes, though, I'm figuring it at 2784 bytes.
Probably someone has formatted it, and it would be 1536 bytes when the
program code was reformatted to 80-char lines?
Whatever, I cannot get it do do anything like a BASIC interpreter. It
just accepts any input and prints "Ok"...
Hmm? Not same as Chipmunk BASIC, then:
>10 for i = 1 to 20
>20 print 2*i
>30 next i
>run
2
4
6
8
10
[...]
Besides, "strings `which basic`" contains "Pascal system error %d",
which makes it rather dubious that it should have come from an
obfuscated C contest, dontchathink?
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Peter Dalgaard BSA
>Oh, *THAT*. :)
>Here's the complete sources (relax, it's not that huge. :)
>I dunno about 1536 bytes, though, I'm figuring it at 2784 bytes.
Probably someone has formatted it, and it would be 1536 bytes when the
program code was reformatted to 80-char lines?
Whatever, I cannot get it do do anything like a BASIC interpreter. It
just accepts any input and prints "Ok"...
Hmm? Not same as Chipmunk BASIC, then:
[snip]
Actually got the obfuscated one to work, you simply have to use
uppercase and absolutely NO spacing (just read the source and
see for yourself ;^) !):
$ a.out
Ok
100 FORI=1TO10
Ok
200 PRINTI
Ok
300 NEXTI
Ok
LIST
100 FORI=1TO10
200 PRINTI
300 NEXTI
Ok
RUN
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Ok
Ron Nicholson
Nick Hutton wrote:
> After having searched for a few days I'v drawn a blank. Does
> anyone know where I can get some kind of BASIC compiler, or
> even interpreter, for Linux?
I keep an updated list of portable BASIC interpreters on the
Chipmunk Basic web page:
<http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic>
Most complete portable interpteter is Bywater Basic 2.20 patch
level 01.
Fastest portable interpreter is the one by Marc-Oliver Ihm.
Smallest is the obfuscated one by Diomidis Spinellis (25 lines).
Chipmunk Basic 1.0 is seriously obsolete.
I'm looking for an account on an x86/linux system to build a
Chipmunk Basic 3.4 binary.
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U.M...@t-online.de
>Oh, *THAT*. :)
>Here's the complete sources (relax, it's not that huge. :)
>I dunno about 1536 bytes, though, I'm figuring it at 2784 bytes.
Probably someone has formatted it, and it would be 1536 bytes when the
program code was reformatted to 80-char lines?
Whatever, I cannot get it do do anything like a BASIC interpreter. It
just accepts any input and prints "Ok"...
There is another one called bwbasic. It seems to be fairly usable.
In Germany it is on the S.u.S.E. distribution. Maybe you can find it using
archie.
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: There is another one called bwbasic. It seems to be fairly usable.
: archie.
Caldera 1.0 comes with a lite version of XBasic if I remember the right way.
Robert
James Youngman
bwBASIC also exists and is on Sunsite somewhere.
Mark A. Stevens
In article <4siped$h...@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
I don't know if anyone pointed this out, but there's a version in the
p2c package in the Slackware distribution.
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Jon Martin Solaas
I don't know if anyone pointed this out, but there's a version in the
p2c package in the Slackware distribution.
Eh, that's p2c, not b2c. Notihing wroing with pascal, it's just that
it ain't baisc ...
Jon Martin Solaas
jo...@ifi.uio.no
Grant Edwards
Jon Martin Solaas (jo...@ifi.uio.no) wrote:
: I don't know if anyone pointed this out, but there's a version in the
: p2c package in the Slackware distribution.
: Eh, that's p2c, not b2c. Notihing wroing with pascal, it's just that it
: ain't baisc...
Are you claiming that the p2c package doesn't contain a BASIC interpreter?
There was one in the package last time I looked -- which was a while back.
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: I don't know if anyone pointed this out, but there's a version in the
: p2c package in the Slackware distribution.
: Eh, that's p2c, not b2c. Notihing wroing with pascal, it's just that
: it ain't baisc ...
Right. However, p2c includes a basic interpreter written in Pascal (which
you can then translate to C and compile).
Cheers,
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