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diff --git a/development/minimal-basic/README b/development/minimal-basic/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6e66cf04d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/minimal-basic/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +minimal-basic (compiler for ECMA-55 Minimal BASIC) + +This software is a compiler for 'Minimal BASIC' as specified by the +ECMA-55 standard. The target is AMD64/EM64T/x86-64 machines running a +modern Linux distribution. + +The compiler is called ecma55, but it's normally called via wrapper +scripts called BASICC, BASICCS, or BASICCW. Man pages are included for +all of these commands. + +There's sample code in /usr/share/minimal-basic, and quite a bit +of documentation in /usr/doc/minimal-basic-$VERSION, including a +copy of the language standard (ECMA-55.TXT) and a complete book +(Learn_BASIC.pdf). + +Note: This will only compile on x86_64 because it's partly written in +x86_64 assembly. No way will it ever compile for 32-bit x86 (or any +ARM). Even if it would build on 32-bit, it would be a cross compiler: +it only generates x86_64 code, which would not be very useful on an +x86 system. |