6 Aug
2008
6 Aug
'08
12:21 p.m.
>>>> "John" == John Foust
<jfoust at threedee.com> writes:
John> At 02:01 PM 8/6/2008, Paul Koning wrote:
> You may be missing the different product names.
"BASIC-PLUS" and
> "BASIC-PLUS-2" are very different beasts. (I haven't seen
> BASIC-PLUS-1 before, that wasn't a normal designation but the
> meaning is obvious.)
John> No, I saw that difference, and that's why I pointed it out.
John> What I'm remembering is a BASIC decompiler, written in BASIC,
John> that was running on RSTS/e circa 1983. So that was BP, not
John> BP2, right?
Presumably. At least that's the only kind I have ever heard of.
While in theory it would be possible to decompile BP2 -- just as it is
possible to decompile machine code back into C or C++ -- that would be
hard enough that coding it in BASIC seems implausible. By contrast,
disassembling PPcode is easy.
paul