[Coco] BASIC compiler for Rainbow IDE ?

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Roger, my understanding of what you are planning to do is unclear.

In any case, please review what I did with "Urbane".

Just the two additions of longer unique variable names and line numbers not 
required makes DECB a much better language.

As there was no messages to me about "Urbane" (NONE), I did not follow up 
with what I realized could be done.

This was despite the large number of downloads. You reset the counters at 
one point so I have no real understanding as to their real numbers.

Stephen H. Fischer

P.S. I think that I have on a disk somewhere a DECB like compiler that may 
be similar to what you are planning.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
To: "cocolist for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:03 PM
Subject: [Coco] BASIC compiler for Rainbow IDE ?


> If you're interested in a drop-in BASIC compiler for the Rainbow IDE, 
> please raise your hand?
>
> To have this work with the existing versions of Rainbow, the idea is to 
> have any .bas files loaded in the tabs first, then a single .asm file 
> loaded last would "include" the ".asm" output from the ".bas" objects.
>
> ROM Paks and LOADMable binaries could be created from BASIC programs. 
> However, I don't think I can dupe the entire CoCo 3 command set.  I'd 
> start with standard BASIC and work my way up to a subset of ECB, and so 
> forth.  The compiler would support a subset of the entire CoCo 1/2/3 BASIC 
> command set.