BASIC-Plus decompiler

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "John" == John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> writes:

 John> At 02:01 PM 8/6/2008, Paul Koning wrote:
 >> You may be missing the different product names.  "BASIC-PLUS" and
 >> "BASIC-PLUS-2" are very different beasts.  (I haven't seen
 >> BASIC-PLUS-1 before, that wasn't a normal designation but the
 >> meaning is obvious.)

 John> No, I saw that difference, and that's why I pointed it out.

 John> What I'm remembering is a BASIC decompiler, written in BASIC,
 John> that was running on RSTS/e circa 1983.  So that was BP, not
 John> BP2, right?

Presumably.  At least that's the only kind I have ever heard of.
While in theory it would be possible to decompile BP2 -- just as it is
possible to decompile machine code back into C or C++ -- that would be
hard enough that coding it in BASIC seems implausible.  By contrast,
disassembling PPcode is easy.

      paul