Has anyone implemented BASIC in Python?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Aug 23 14:11:56 EDT 2004


In article <41295D22.8702D583 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>Leif K-Brooks wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone ever tried implementing a simple unstructured BASIC dialect
>> in Python? I'm getting interested in language implementation, and
>> looking at a reasonably simple example like that could be pretty
>> interesting.
>
>On a whim, I implemented a Python BASIC interpreter which supported all
>statements in primitive BASIC, but got bored before I implemented all
>the standard operators in expressions.

For some reason, I thought that after "but" you were going to write,
"...but I don't have the proof handy."  ;-)
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