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Rapid Bull is a basic-like language. It is the rewritten version of Lasic, and produces much better code than its predecessor. It also has more features already, with 4 data types, subs and functions, local variables, function parameters (well, one per function), and automatic assembling and linking.

The language:

• Four types: Int, Byte, Word and Float (And long=int and single=float)
• Literal numbers including floating-point numbers like 1.5
• Eight operators, in order of precedence:
  • - (unary minus]
  • = < >
  • * /
  • + -
  Use parentheses to force the expression to be evaluated in a certain order.
  Note that a division always returns a float.
• Comparision operators returns 1 or 0 for true or false, so you can do this: a = b = c. (The generated code for the IF statement is still good!)
• Variables must be declared before they are used (dim name[, name] as type)
• Highly optimized (except for one small case which will be fixed) control flow contructs:
  • IF <condition> [.. ELSE] .. ENDIF
  • REPEAT .. UNTIL <condition>
  • WHILE <condition> .. WEND
• Comments (start with ' and goes to the end of the line)
• Inline asm (starts with ! and goes to the end of the line, must start at the start of a line.)
• Subs: procedures with no return value. They can't be called where you expect a result from them (ie a = Sub() is not allowed)
• Functions: procedures with a return value
• Local variables in subs and functions, shadows global ones
• ONE parameter (or none) per sub or function
• Compiler options:
  • -o: Compile and assemble, but do not link
  • -a: Compile to asm only
  • If no option is specified, an asm file, an object file, and an executable file will be generated. You can't specify an option without a filename.

@Trond:
Nice work... sounds very interesting... i am still looking forward to your project...

@all:
I have done a small n simple RapidBull IDE in a real hurry... this is my little happy new year gift for you. download

Please copy the IDE tool into the RapidBull folder to get it work.

Impressive fireworks.... I'd like to see the sourcecode for that

Good work so far

va!n wrote:@Trond:
Nice work... sounds very interesting... i am still looking forward to your project...

@all:
I have done a small n simple RapidBull IDE in a real hurry... this is my little happy new year gift for you. download

Please copy the IDE tool into the RapidBull folder to get it work.

Wow thanks.

@Trond:
Seems your forum is sometimes down / not reachable