[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > SuperBASIC would be **much** better! >
I once wrote a parser and syntax evaluator, in SuperBasic (and I think, converted it to C68) for a project many years ago - which died a horrible death. The project was code named 'ARSE' and stood for ARchive Syntax Evaluator. It's main purpose was to take a file of Archive procedured, encrypted or not, and produce a SuperBasic file where the Archive stuff was converted to DBAS commands. I even got the screens converted to SuperBasic as well. I managed to find a bug in one of the Quanta library discs where someone has written a huge set of procedures etc to make Archive easy, there was, if I remember, an end if out of sequence with an end while (See, it was that long ago, I can't even remember the syntax !) which Archive seemed to think was ok, but my parser/evaluator didn't like at all. I *might* still have the source code, but it won't be pretty - but it wasn't bad for a first attempt at writing a 'compiler'. Actually, it remains my only attempt ! I know it had at least one bug in it, it didn't handle string expressions very well. If I'm not mistaken, stuff like DATE$(...) broke it. M<y problem is I'm very much self taught as a programmer, and without any resources to call on, I tend to get very dis-hearted when it all goes horribly wrong and I've got no-one to consult who knows better. (This was before the internet !) Cheers, Norman. PS. I never did get the 'code generator' written though ! _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
