Re: Compiling TI-BASIC?


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Re: Compiling TI-BASIC?



On Sat, 02 Nov 96 11:48:03 -0400 "Wild Bill" <billyd@early.com> writes:
>Robert W McGrew <wesleymcgrew@JUNO.COM> seems to think that....
>
>> Would it be possible to make a DOS program that would take an .85P
>> ti-basic file and compile it into a ZShell string?  That way, the
>> processor wouldn't have to translate the BASIC program to assembler
>when
>> the program is run, since it will already be in assembler.
>>
>> I hope this isn't a stupid idea :)
>>
>> -|/|/esley McGrew
>>
>
>TI-Basic is not a compiler, it is an interpreter.  The basic programs
>are
>not compiled or assembled, they are merely tokenized to save RAM.
>
>(*~*)(*~*)
> Wild Bill
>(*~*)(*~*)


I know.  What I'm proposing is an MS-DOS program that *would* compile
them into an 85S file that ZShell would recognize and be able to run,
kinda like those BASIC to ML compilers I used to fool around with on my
old Commodore 64.


-Wesley McGrew


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