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RUN/C: A C Language Interpreter 1980's

mmruzek

mmruzek

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Hi, I have been reading about, and playing with a C Language Interpreter called "RUN/C Professional" as was offered by Lifeboat Associates in the 1980's, and as reviewed here:


I was able to find a disk image of the software and burn it to 360K floppy using Brutman's DSKIMAGE program. Found the image here:

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I am interested in this topic because I am trying to write an interpreted language for my homebrew stack computer. The review mentions that the RUN/C software had a really good manual, over 500 pages. I am wondering if anyone has the manual, or has seen it floating around the etherspace. I'm not finding it with the search engines. Thanks! Michael
 
I think it is still hiding on a CD backup somewhere... If there is interest I will hunt it out.

It is written in BCPL (I think) so as long as there is a BCPL environment available you should be good to go.

Dave
 
daver2 said:
It is written in BCPL (I think) so as long as there is a BCPL environment available you should be good to go.
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I certainly don't have such an environment. In fact, googling for CORAL 66, yesterday was the first time I read about BCPL at all.

I'm interested but pure out of curiosity. So don't make too much efforts, if you find the CD, fine. But if you don't, nothing lost. TIA!
 
The 'original' site I acquired the sources from was: https://gtoal.com/languages/coral66/.

There are a couple of files missing.

I did track down the original author, but the missing files could not be extracted from the ZIP drive (unfortunately).

Between the two of us I 'bodged' together some code that worked. One exception was the type-equivalency matrix. I just said that any data type was compatible with any other data type! This makes the compiler compile, but it will accept Coral 66 source code that should be rejected.

If I find my CD backup I will post my code.

Dave
 
Here in the UK I had a commercial c interpreter way back when I was first learning the language,
not 100% sure but I think it was called "Visible c" (not visual). It was great for testing ideas and
had onscreen variable monitors etc, you couldnt write an app in it but as a training package it did its job well.
Would be nice to find it again but I've no idea who released it, not even sure if that was its name,
again I'm not sure but I think it preceded the Hisoft one.
I used it a few times but soon moved on, subsequently using Borland and Zortech for many
years but always preferred Microsoft MASM and Borland Turbo Assembler, alongside the 'Sourcer' disassembler.
I'd love to hear from anyone who remembers this UK (?) interpreter and its actual name :)
Cheers
Phil
 
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