Subj : Re: mixing C++ with old, caveman BASIC
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket>
Date : Tue Dec 16 2003 07:44 pm

GW Basic and Visual Basic are not as close as you think.  Convert to one of
Visual Basic, C or C++.  It's probably about as difficult to convert it to
any of the three.

..  Ed

> Rob C wrote in message
> news:3fdf96e3$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> My father, a retired structural engineer, wrote several
> mathematical analysis programs for his business way back when in
> the old, Neanderthal-style GW-BASIC, using line numbers and all
> that nonsense. The source code for GW-BASIC is stored in binary
> format.
>
> A real challenge!
>
> I suppose I could convert that binary format to ASCII without to
> much trouble. After that it would be the same as mixing C++ with
> Visual Basic, wouldn’t it? To mix C++ with C, I declare the
> function, “extern “C”. So what about mixing C++ with GW-BASIC
> converted to ASCII?

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