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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!thomas From: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Need a BASIC compiler for *BSD / Unix Date: 8 Nov 1994 07:41:31 GMT Organization: Inst. f. Hochfrequenztechnik Lines: 13 Message-ID: <39na3b$88@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <CyvK3q.GLL@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tyrone R Powers (tyrone@world.std.com) wrote: > I am looking for a Basic or QuickBasic-like compiler for *BSD. I'm > not sure if such a thing exists, but if it does, I'd be very grateful > if someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks! Well, if you can find an archive with the winners of the Obfuscated C Contest of 1991: the prize for ``Most Well-Rounded Confusion'' went to Diomidis Spinellis <dds@doc.ic.ac.uk> for a BASIC compiler ... tg (Seriously, there is a port of bwbasic in the 1.1.5.1 ports collection (ports/lang/bwbasic). Try archie for a site near you.)