use Perl

It BASICally Works

posted by KM on 2002.04.11 13:13   

Dan writes "Need a reason to play with Parrot, but programming in assembly or Scheme just not do it for you? Well, then, maybe this:

10 print "Hello, world!"
20 goto 10

is enough. Yep, we have a full-featured BASIC interpreter for Parrot in CVS. Head to dev.perl.org for instructions on checking out from CVS, or getting one of the bi-daily snapshots."

• ...and if there's something missing (Score:3, Informative)

  by clintp (2) on 2002.04.12 8:03 (#6907)

  If there's something you'd like to get your favorite BASIC program working: a favorite function, some statement that you can't live without, or something outlandish like eval for BASIC -- let me know. The design's pretty open and new things are easy to implement. Updates posted to here [geeksalad.org].

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  • Re:...and if there's something missing (Score:2, Funny)

    by jordan (120)

    How about an eval for a language like Perl. It wouldn't have to be exactly like Perl as we know it, maybe a cleaner syntax, a few ambiquities removed. You know, something like Larry is recommending here [perl.com].

    You know, I hear there is a group that is working on this, a new Perl using a new underlying virtual machine.

    The virtual machine... now, what was it called? It's slipping my mind, right now. It's named after an animal or a bird or something.