Inspired by a September 14, 2006 Salon article "Why Johnny Can't Code" by
David Brin (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/index.html),
I thought that a fully working BASIC interpreter might be an interesting, if not questionable, PLY example. Uh, okay, so maybe it's just a bad idea,
but in any case, here it is.
In this example, you'll find a rough implementation of 1964 Dartmouth BASIC
as described in the manual at:
This dialect is downright primitive---there are no string variables
and no facilities for interactive input. Moreover, subroutines and functions
are brain-dead even more than they usually are for BASIC. Of course,
the GOTO statement is provided.
Nevertheless, there are a few interesting aspects of this example:
- It illustrates a fully working interpreter including lexing, parsing,
and interpretation of instructions.
- The parser shows how to catch and report various kinds of parsing
errors in a more graceful way.
- The example both parses files (supplied on command line) and
interactive input entered line by line.
- It shows how you might represent parsed information. In thiscase,
each BASIC statement is encoded into a Python tuple containing the
statement type and parameters. These tuples are then stored in
a dictionary indexed by program line numbers.
- Even though it's just BASIC, the parser contains more than 80
rules and 150 parsing states. Thus, it's a little more meaty than
the calculator example.
To use the example, run it as follows:
% python basic.py hello.bas
HELLO WORLD
%
or use it interactively:
% python basic.py
[BASIC] 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
[BASIC] 20 END
[BASIC] RUN
HELLO WORLD
[BASIC]
The following files are defined:
basic.py - High level script that controls everything
basiclex.py - BASIC tokenizer
basparse.py - BASIC parser
basinterp.py - BASIC interpreter that runs parsed programs.
In addition, a number of sample BASIC programs (.bas suffix) are
provided. These were taken out of the Dartmouth manual.
Disclaimer: I haven't spent a ton of time testing this and it's likely that
I've skimped here and there on a few finer details (e.g., strictly enforcing
variable naming rules). However, the interpreter seems to be able to run
the examples in the BASIC manual.
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