I have the source code to an old BASIC program that a friend of mine
would like to run online. I am a beginner at JS, but I think that it
would be a good choice for the project. My background is in C/C++ and
web development.
Any suggestions that might get me off to a good start here? I can
provide more information if needed, but I am not sure what would be
helpful. The program is 550 lines in what appears to be BASIC and is a
calendar conversion program. You give it a date and it will convert it
into one of many other date reckoning systems (Gregorian, Hebrew,
Egyptian, etc, etc).
10  2669 
Trippeer,
Is your intention to convert the program from BASIC to JavaScript?
What version of BASIC is the program written in?
If you are just looking for a free BASIC interpreter, you can find several
on-line:
Just Basic http://www.justbasic.com or
Digital Basic http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008...lish/index.htm or
Chipmunk Basic http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ or
Small Basic http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net
John Fredrickson
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>I have the source code to an old BASIC program that a friend of mine
would like to run online. I am a beginner at JS, but I think that it
would be a good choice for the project. My background is in C/C++ and
web development.
Any suggestions that might get me off to a good start here? I can
provide more information if needed, but I am not sure what would be
helpful. The program is 550 lines in what appears to be BASIC and is a
calendar conversion program. You give it a date and it will convert it
into one of many other date reckoning systems (Gregorian, Hebrew,
Egyptian, etc, etc).
Yes, I would like to convert it to JS. As far as I know, I cannot get
it to run in a web page as is, so I plan on using the source code to
decipher the logic and rewrite it in JS.
I don't know what version of BASIC, but it seems pretty
straightforward . Lots of GOSUBS and GOTOs, and the arrays are populated
with a FOR/NEXT construction with READ and DATA keywords.
John Fredrickson wrote:
Trippeer,
Is your intention to convert the program from BASIC to JavaScript?
What version of BASIC is the program written in?
If you are just looking for a free BASIC interpreter, you can find several
on-line:
Just Basic http://www.justbasic.com or
Digital Basic http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008...lish/index.htm or
Chipmunk Basic http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ or
Small Basic http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net
John Fredrickson
tr******@gmail. com wrote on 08 aug 2006 in comp.lang.javas cript:
John Fredrickson wrote:
>Trippeer,
Is your intention to convert the program from BASIC to JavaScript?
What version of BASIC is the program written in?
If you are just looking for a free BASIC interpreter, you can find
several on-line:
Just Basic http://www.justbasic.com or
Digital Basic
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008...lish/index.htm or Chipmunk
Basic http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/ or Small Basic
http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net
[please do not toppost on usenet]
Yes, I would like to convert it to JS. As far as I know, I cannot get
it to run in a web page as is, so I plan on using the source code to
decipher the logic and rewrite it in JS.
I don't know what version of BASIC, but it seems pretty
straightforward . Lots of GOSUBS and GOTOs, and the arrays are
populated with a FOR/NEXT construction with READ and DATA keywords.
Automatic conversion is impossible, methinks.
Suggestion:
Try to understand the programme and write a JS programme
that has the same effect.
Modern progamming is module oriented, so the "goto" concept, heavily
attacked by Dijkstra in the 1970s, has been removed from the modern
language versions. and rightly so.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
Evertjan. wrote:
[...]
Modern progamming is module oriented, so the "goto" concept, heavily
attacked by Dijkstra in the 1970s, has been removed from the modern
language versions.
<quote>
GOTO is found in FORTRAN, Algol, COBOL, SNOBOL, BASIC, Common Lisp, C,
C++, C#, D, Pascal, Perl, PHP6 and many other languages.
</quote> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOTO
--
Bart
Bart Van der Donck wrote on 09 aug 2006 in comp.lang.javas cript:
Evertjan. wrote:
>[...]
Modern progamming is module oriented, so the "goto" concept, heavily
attacked by Dijkstra in the 1970s, has been removed from the modern
language versions.
<quote>
GOTO is found in FORTRAN, Algol, COBOL, SNOBOL, BASIC, Common Lisp, C,
C++, C#, D, Pascal, Perl, PHP6 and many other languages.
</quote>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOTO
"modern language _versions_" of _BASIC_,
thought that was obvious, Bart.
In your <http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/GOTOlink:
"One famous criticism of GOTO is a 1968 letter by Edsger Dijkstra
called Go To Statement Considered Harmful."
also: <http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Edsger_Dijkstra >
or: <http://nl.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Edsger_Dijkstra >
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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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Evertjan. wrote:
Bart Van der Donck wrote on 09 aug 2006 in comp.lang.javas cript:
<quote>
GOTO is found in FORTRAN, Algol, COBOL, SNOBOL, BASIC, Common Lisp, C,
C++, C#, D, Pascal, Perl, PHP6 and many other languages.
</quote>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOTO
"modern language _versions_" of _BASIC_,
thought that was obvious, Bart.
AFAIK GOTO should be present in all Basic versions/variants. I agree it
should not be used too much (just common 'structural' sense), but you
don't need GOTO to write spaghetti code :-)
--
Bart
Bart Van der Donck wrote on 09 aug 2006 in comp.lang.javas cript:
Evertjan. wrote:
>Bart Van der Donck wrote on 09 aug 2006 in comp.lang.javas cript:
<quote>
GOTO is found in FORTRAN, Algol, COBOL, SNOBOL, BASIC, Common Lisp, C,
C++, C#, D, Pascal, Perl, PHP6 and many other languages.
</quote>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOTO
"modern language _versions_" of _BASIC_,
thought that was obvious, Bart.
AFAIK GOTO should be present in all Basic versions/variants. I agree it
should not be used too much (just common 'structural' sense), but you
don't need GOTO to write spaghetti code :-)
That may be your opinion, Bart.
I tend, after many years of doubt, to agree with Dijkstra it should not.
Fact is it is not present in VB and VBS,
the only "modern versions" of Basic I know of..
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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Bart Van der Donck wrote on 09 aug 2006 in comp.lang.javas cript:
Evertjan. wrote:
>[...]
Fact is it [GOTO] is not present in VB and VBS,
the only "modern versions" of Basic I know of..
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/69whc95c.aspx
I am disgusted.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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