BASIC09 programming language front-end developed for LLVM

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The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware. Boisy Gene Pitre wrote in the RFC announcement of this BASIC09 front-end: “BASIC09 was a structured BASIC dialect used on OS-9/6809 and OS-9/68K systems, especially the Tandy Color Computer ecosystem. It has procedures, typed variables, arrays, control flow, and a compilation model that makes it a reasonable candidate for preservation through a modern compiler infrastructure. Read more on Phoronix.