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@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ + NOTES ABOUT CURRENT VERSION + +There are problems using some versions of gcc on some platforms. +In case Blassic core dumps on exiting or when a program has an +error, compile it using -O0 + +The regular expression functions are not supported under windows. + +The bidirectional POPEN may or may not work on windows depending +on the windows version used. + +Now configure admits several options: --disable-graphics to compile +without graphics support and --disable-curses to compile without +curses nor ncurses. In the last case, CLS, LOCATE and other +instructions when used in text mode are silently ignored. In the +former, trying to enter in graphics mode generates an error. +If curses is enabled, first ncurses is tested, if not available +curses is used instead. The --disable-ncurses option skips the +ncurses test and uses always curses. + +When configuring for unix/linux, using --without-x has the same +effect as --disable-graphics. For windows is ignored. + +Several scripts to call configure are provided, see the do_conf* +files. + + + NOTES ABOUT CROSS-COMPILING BLASSIC + +The cross-compiling has been simplified in Blasic 0.10.0, it must now +automatically use the native compiler to create gencharset. If this +fails you can manually compile it, or create a dummy, it does not +need to be executed unless the charset data files are modified. + + + * * * + + +To run the test of dynamic linking of functions do: + + make testdl.so + + ./blassic testdl + +On windows with Borland C++ Builder build the project testdl and do: + + blassic testdl + +There is no other documentation than the testdl.cpp source, sorry. + + + * * * + + + BASIC /bay'-sic/ n. + +A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental +timesharing system in the early 1960s, which for many years was the leading +cause of brain damage in proto-hackers. Edsger W. Dijkstra observed in +"Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective" that "It is +practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have +had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally +mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." This is another case (like Pascal) +of the cascading lossage that happens when a language deliberately designed +as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can write short +BASIC programs (on the order of 10-20 lines) very easily; writing anything +longer (a) is very painful, and (b) encourages bad habits that will make it +harder to use more powerful languages well. This wouldn't be so bad if +historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on low-end micros in the +1980s. As it is, it probably ruined tens of thousands of potential wizards. + + "The new hacker's dictionary" + +I disagree with this point of view, but... + + ***************************** + ** You have been warned! ** + ***************************** + + +(C) 2001-2005 Julián Albo + +julian.notfound@gmail.com |