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Re:BaCon – BASIC to C converter by nothrabannosir on Sunday January 29, 2017 @09:56AM (#13514357)
Wow that alone is perhaps even more impressive than what the program actually does... I thought I knew bash but just wow. Compatible with 5 different shells, too. This is some next level enlightened zen master stuff.
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Re:BaCon – BASIC to C converter by shakna on Sunday January 29, 2017 @12:12PM (#13515139)
Though not crazy cross compatible, you might find Mal's bash implementation interesting [0]. Mal is a small, easy to implement Lisp.

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/tree/master/bash

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Re:BaCon – BASIC to C converter by chx on Sunday January 29, 2017 @01:23PM (#13515697)
Don't get too carried away, it's written for ksh and relies on bash and zsh to be compatible with ksh. You can see in the beginning it does a tiny bit of setup and never cares again which shell it runs on. For zsh, it literally says "emulate ksh" which is something zsh provides.
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Re:BaCon – BASIC to C converter by sverige on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:03PM (#13516996)
Proving once again that ksh is all you really need in a shell. ;)
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