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I've tried to learn, but finding a good (as in one I find easy to follow and understand) online tutorial is hard, and it's also difficult trying to commit to learning another language when you're writing a new one yourself!

ASM is way over my head, though, just too hard I guess if I was studying it a little bit I could understand it, but, well...
Doing a compiler that output in C should be "quite" easy, as the basic stuffs are already there, it should be easy to convert things like if/endif, for/next, Procedure/EndProcedure.
And the same goes for the expressions (and we can so have double support )
And the same goes for maths (math.h )
So, with little knowledge, it should be quite easy, and would produce nearly as optimized .exe as Purebasic !
Sad I already have a project going on, but I might do that later

Killswitch wrote:I've tried to learn, but finding a good (as in one I find easy to follow and understand) online tutorial is hard, and it's also difficult trying to commit to learning another language when you're writing a new one yourself!

The programming tutorial for dos on the flat assembler site is good for learning. Also, fasm comes with a pdf document with a list of all the instructions you can use and what they do.

Thanks!

Other thing you can do is output C Code from the basic code

Guess what, I don't know any C either! Would anybody here be interested in helping create a compiler?

I was working on a BASIC-to-FreePascal translator a few months ago and have since moved on to other projects but may come back to it some day. I chose FreePascal because it is available for so many platforms. Part of my vision for the BASIC-to-FreePascal translator was that it adhere as closely as practical to standard (ANSI/ISO) BASIC syntax, with some allowance for QB compatability. I'm kind of a stickler when it comes to standard BASIC syntax as I believe BASIC code should be fairly portable. FreePascal is a nice language and should come fairly close to C in terms of execution speed. There are similarities between BASIC and Pascal which helps.

There is also BCX, a BASIC-to-C compiler, but it's locked into Windows.