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- From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: basic interpreter -- *not* folklore
- Message-ID: <2385@usna.NAVY.MIL>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 13:52:09 GMT
- References: <721582209.862497.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
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- Organization: U. S. Naval Academy
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- In article <721582209.862497.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:
- !darrell mccauley asks (comp.text.tex, november 10) if it's true
- !that someone actually wrote a basic interpreter in tex.
- !
- !andrew marc greene of mit wrote such an interpreter, and presented
- !a paper about it at the 1990 tug meeting. the paper appears in the
- !proceedings of that meeting, published in tugboat 11 #3 (september
- !1990), pp 381-392. the interpreter is called basix.tex, and the
- !full macro listing is given in an appendix -- all 477 lines of it.
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- Does it conform to the ANSI standard for BASIC?
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- Dave Rogers
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