Subj : Re: Dartmouth BASIC to C
To   : comp.programming
From : Dave
Date : Tue Aug 09 2005 01:42 pm



John Smith wrote:
> Having nothing better to do on a Saturday morning, I was looking at 
> Kemeny & Kurtz's 1964 manual for BASIC:
> 
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf
> 
> Below is a C port of the first example program given in the manual. Can 
> it be improved...?

Almost certainly.  But you need to define what you mean by "improved" - 
you do want it to be shorter, easier to read, run faster, use less 
memory, throw more appropriate errors, print the original BASIC source, 
cook your dinner for you, emit only certain types of nasal simians, or what?

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