Exploring Extreme Programming
I’ve been implementing the FOR-NEXT loop in a BASIC interpreter I’m building. It brings up some issues of programming language semantics. Expectations Shattered I had expected this would correspond to a while loop, something like this: From two descriptions of Continue reading Semantics of FOR-NEXT Loops
Environments vary substantially between computers, so you’ll often see environment-specific code hidden in the PEEKs and POKEs of old BASIC programs. We’ll take a brief tour of the Ohio Scientific and Commodore 64, two computers from the late 1970s to Continue reading Ohio Scientific and Commodore 64 Environments
Once in a while, I run into a 1980s-era BASIC program, typically written for Commodore 64, Apple ][, or TRS-80. I’d like to transliterate it into a modern language, refactor it, and explore it. These old programs make a nice Continue reading Transliterating Old-School BASIC