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BaCon – A free Basic to C translator for Unix-based systems
- cbd1984 11y agoThe example code (linked to directly from that page) is cool. I think the whois client is especially nice: http://www.basic-converter.org/whois.bac.html http://www.basic-converter.org/whois.bac.html It's just a very simple way to talk over a network. Mainly, though, this project is simply cool. It's a shell script which takes a useful dialect of BASIC and converts it into odd but not totally unreadable C. It helps this is a more Pascal-like BASIC instead of being an Object-Oriented BASIC; even so, some of the translations are fairly clever. I actually found out about this via the GnuCOBOL FAQ. I found out about that because I'm just an odd kind of individual. http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#bacon http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#bacon In fact, the author of the GnuCOBOL FAQ sums up my feelings about BaCon quite well: > Nicely done. Not a toy.