Re: Basic-Like PCODE Compiler and Virtual Host/Interpreter

"Paul Robinson" <Postmaster@paul.washington.dc.us>
24 May 2004 00:29:43 -0400

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From: "Paul Robinson" <Postmaster@paul.washington.dc.us>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 May 2004 00:29:43 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 04-04-041 04-04-057
Keywords: interpreter
Posted-Date: 24 May 2004 00:29:43 EDT

Timothy Knox wrote
>Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:26:33PM -0400, JA
Peele wrote:
>> I am looking for some hints/tips or possibly source if its available
>> (even as a guide) to explain how I can complete the following tasks.
>> Any input is greatly appreciative:
>
>Well, I haven't used it myself (save to install it and write one
>quick trivial program in it), but have you considered ScriptBasic?


I think ScriptBasic would do more-or less what he needs. But I have a
question: Why is it that almost everyone who writes some sort of
compiler for BASIC uses C? What is wrong with using BASIC itself to
implement a compiler for BASIC? Every Pascal compiler I've seen uses
Pascal as the source language. To me it makes sense to implement the
compiler for a language in itself, if the language supports file I/O.

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