[Coco] Cross-platform editor for CoCo BASIC?

[rcrislip]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 22:20:22 -0600
Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> > On Jan 31, 2023, at 10:06 PM, Mark via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder how difficult it would be to write a text parser
> > (command-line tool) that took in what is essentially CoCo BASIC but
> > using labels rather than line numbers and allowing free-format text
> > and eg. block if/then/else and output CoCo3 BASIC?
> > Editing/pre-processing this on a modern PC would take a lot of pain
> > out of developing in CoCo BASIC...  
> 
> 
> That is out there — I just don’t remember who wrote it. The code is
> nicely formatted, tabbed, and even had some keywords for WHILE and
> such, that would translate in to BASIC.
> 
> Looking at Alex’s python scripts, I notice one that compacts the
> code. We are close to having all the pieces to a BASIC optimizer that
> keeps thing in BASIC but does things like pre-declare variables in
> the order that speeds up the ones used the most, and moved GOTO/GOSUB
> routines around to be faster based on how they are used.
> 
> Figuring that out is difficult but it could certainly be helped by a
> keyword in the code that would tell the code “this should be fast”
> versus “don’t care”.
> 
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> 

Seems to me a guy with the first name of "Roger" wrote and published
what is being looked for, He and Petri got into a brewhaha because
Roger (if that's his name) also gave away for free items or ideas Petri
was selling. My recalculation are fuzzy but that did happen.