[antlr-interest] One weird, one (hopefully) simple problem .. . from a newbie

[Robert Colquhoun]

At 02:13 PM 27/01/2003 +0000, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:

>I know all about the nasties in the language ... fortunately not from 
>having met them most of the time. INFOBASIC does not have the REMark 
>keyword - that killed some 80% of our code when we ported to UV :-( It 
>also doesn't have the ' ' operator.

Are you sure? i don't run universe but downloaded their basic manual which 
talks about REM as a comment and the REMainder function, maybe you cannot 
have REM as a valid variable name?  It also talks about the 'format 
expression'(look under FMT function) which i called the ' ' operator.

>I'm unlikely to try implementing most of those nasties ... and I have no 
>intention of rewriting the compiler in C! I've always got gcj for that :-) 
>Which I may well use also for the runtime.

I think my code and antlr runtime can be compiled under gcj, i believe 
people have done this for other antlr based compilers.

>As I say, at the moment I'm just using it as a base to learn Java and 
>Antlr. I think those skills will be worth having, even if I don't get any 
>further...
>
>I want to complete my native filesystem, and my vision was always to push 
>as much development into BASIC as possible. I think I speak for a lot of 
>traditionalists when I say I find MaVerick a bit too modern :-)

and then someone else comes along as tells me they want to write their 
webapp in basic and could i wrap the servlet api so they can throw away 
PHP.....

  - Robert


 

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