FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM
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Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9’s BASIC09
Neither LLVM nor GCC directly support the BASIC programming language – but a former Microware boffin proposes fixing that.
An interesting new proposal on the Discourse forum of the LLVM compiler suite has turned into a new standalone BASIC compiler. The original RFC was Adding BASIC09 frontend tool to LLVM. Author Boisy Petre proposed adding a front-end to enable LLVM to compile BASIC source code, and this has now turned into a standalone compiler called basic09c, which uses LLVM as a library. We are irresistibly reminded of the recent addition of ALGOL-68 to GCC.
As we said in 2023, BASIC is anything but dead, and, for BASIC’s 60th birthday, the following year we covered new versions of three modern FOSS dialects. The late Dr Thomas Kurtz would have been proud.
It’s not just any old...
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