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Entire BASIC interpreters were shipped in the very size-constrained ROMs of almost all home computers of the 80s. There was no luxury of parser generators. It's
by TonyTrapp 1y ago
Entire BASIC interpreters were shipped in the very size-constrained ROMs of almost all home computers of the 80s. There was no luxury of parser generators. It's absolutely simple enough that you can write the lexer and parser yourself.
- pjmlp 1y agoWhich, for historical context, is why while Dartmouth BASIC compiled to native before execution, all the 8 bit home computer systems with ROM BASIC were contrained to be plain interpreters. Although those with machines powerful enough to run CP/M, and having disk drives, could enjoy the access to compilers.
- musicale 1y ago> Although those with machines powerful enough to run CP/M, and having disk drives, could enjoy the access to compilers. Like the remarkable Turbo Pascal, which crammed a full IDE into 34KB.