17 Jul
2018
17 Jul
'18
12:33 p.m.
At 03:53 PM 7/14/2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
I remember a detokenizer for RSTS BASIC-PLUS that's not on that list.
I think it was called a "decompiler" though. Seemed like magic at the time.
Googling reveals "You may be remembering the BASIC PLUS
decompiler under RSTS. RSTS BASIC PLUS was interpreted from "push-pop" code.
The symbol table was available in the compiled file, and the correspondence
between push-pop operations and BASIC PLUS source was very close, so you
could get back very reasonable code."
And our previous discussion of it a decade ago:
https://marc.info/?l=classiccmp&m=121804804023540&w=2
- John
isn't the? basic? programs? also stored in
tokinized? forms!?!?
Yes.
And the tokens are not the same between different brand implementations, or even between
different versions, such as MBASIC 4 and MBASIC 5.
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Tokenized_BASIC