7 Jul
2023
7 Jul
'23
9:43 a.m.
Hi all,
maybe someone here is interested in the FOSBIC (FORTRAN Simulated BASIC Interpretive
Compiler) system.
Background: This was developed, oder rather ported from UWBIC (University of Washington,
Prog. W.H. Sharpe) in the mid 70s, by Prof Weber et al. at the German University of
Gießen, for the purpose of teaching BASIC on their CDC3300 batch system.
It is written in FORTRAN IV, and knows most of Dartmouth BASIC, including MAT statements
and basic sequential/ISAM file handling.
I have ported that, with the help to GNU gfortran, to modern Windows (mingw/cygwin) and
Linux, so anyone may play with it. It is still a batch system, i.e. on has to provide the
BASIC program as a file (formerly it had to be a card deck), and feed it into the program
through stdin, as
in "./fosbic < hello.bas | ./asa"
The code with many examples is available at https://github.com/hveit01/FOSBIC, and has
also found its way to bitsavers.org/pdf/uni-giessen.
--
Regards
Holger
7 Jul
7 Jul
12:25 p.m.
Veit, Holger via cctalk [07/07/2023 09.43]:
Hi all,
maybe someone here is interested in the FOSBIC (FORTRAN Simulated BASIC Interpretive
Compiler) system.
Compiles fine, the tests I have run works as intended.
It is still a batch system, i.e. on has to provide the
BASIC program as a file (formerly it had to be a card deck), and feed it into the program
through stdin, as
in "./fosbic < hello.bas | ./asa"
I made a shell script to do this, along with checking that the source
file exists.
Thanks!
--
Hilsen Harald
Слава Україні!
4:27 p.m.
On 7/7/23 00:43, Veit, Holger via cctalk wrote:
Hi all,
maybe someone here is interested in the FOSBIC (FORTRAN Simulated BASIC Interpretive
Compiler) system.
Background: This was developed, oder rather ported from UWBIC (University of Washington,
Prog. W.H. Sharpe) in the mid 70s, by Prof Weber et al. at the German University of
Gießen, for the purpose of teaching BASIC on their CDC3300 batch system.
It is written in FORTRAN IV, and knows most of Dartmouth BASIC, including MAT statements
and basic sequential/ISAM file handling.
I have ported that, with the help to GNU gfortran, to modern Windows (mingw/cygwin) and
Linux, so anyone may play with it. It is still a batch system, i.e. on has to provide the
BASIC program as a file (formerly it had to be a card deck), and feed it into the program
through stdin, as
in "./fosbic < hello.bas | ./asa"
The code with many examples is available at https://github.com/hveit01/FOSBIC, and has
also found its way to bitsavers.org/pdf/uni-giessen.
Does a test/validation suite exist for this thing?
Just wondering--how does one tell if a good version has been produced?
--Chuck
4:50 p.m.
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Von: Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
On 7/7/23 00:43, Veit, Holger via cctalk wrote:
Where should a validation suite come from with such old code?
There are numerous examples, partly from the accompanying text books, partly generated by
myself by reverse engineering the source code,
where I even found a number of bugs in the published code, as well as some quirks such as
PRINT also being accepted as PRONT, due to incomplete decoding of keywords. The examples
do work, but there is no warranty that it will be bug free under all circumstances. Take
it or leave it as is.
Holger
Hi all,
maybe someone here is interested in the FOSBIC (FORTRAN Simulated BASIC Interpretive
Compiler) system.
Background: This was developed, oder rather ported from UWBIC (University of Washington,
Prog. W.H. Sharpe) in the mid 70s, by Prof Weber et al. at the German University of
Gießen, for the purpose of teaching BASIC on their CDC3300 batch system.
It is written in FORTRAN IV, and knows most of Dartmouth BASIC, including MAT statements
and basic sequential/ISAM file handling.
I have ported that, with the help to GNU gfortran, to modern Windows (mingw/cygwin) and
Linux, so anyone may play with it. It is still a batch system, i.e. on has to provide the
BASIC program as a file (formerly it had to be a card deck), and feed it into the program
through stdin, as
in "./fosbic < hello.bas | ./asa"
The code with many examples is available at https://github.com/hveit01/FOSBIC, and has
also found its way to bitsavers.org/pdf/uni-giessen.
Does a test/validation suite exist for this thing?
Just wondering--how does one tell if a good version has been produced?
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