On 7/7/23 00:43, Veit, Holger via cctalk wrote: > Hi all, > maybe someone here is interested in the FOSBIC (FORTRAN Simulated BASIC > Interpretive Compiler) system. > > Background: This was developed, oder rather ported from UWBIC (University of > Washington, Prog. W.H. Sharpe) in the mid 70s, by Prof Weber et al. at the > German University of Gießen, for the purpose of teaching BASIC on their > CDC3300 batch system. > It is written in FORTRAN IV, and knows most of Dartmouth BASIC, including MAT > statements and basic sequential/ISAM file handling. > > I have ported that, with the help to GNU gfortran, to modern Windows > (mingw/cygwin) and Linux, so anyone may play with it. It is still a batch > system, i.e. on has to provide the BASIC program as a file (formerly it had > to be a card deck), and feed it into the program through stdin, as > in "./fosbic < hello.bas | ./asa" > The code with many examples is available at > https://github.com/hveit01/FOSBIC, and has also found its way to > bitsavers.org/pdf/uni-giessen.
Does a test/validation suite exist for this thing? Just wondering--how does one tell if a good version has been produced? --Chuck
