BASCOM

It also covers the basic compiler tools needed to compile the over 10,000 lines of example code, all of which can be downloaded.

FreeBASIC is a free open source BASIC compiler. It is very similar to QBASIC but runs on Windows better and has more features!

Like many others, I cut my programming teeth on it, and between 1991 and 1996 I developed a freeware BASIC compiler for Amiga computers (see www.adelaide.net.au/~dbenn/).

The remainder of this article presents the data decomposition specifications in Fortran D, basic compiler analysis and code generation algorithms, and compiler optimizations to reduce communication cost and exploit pipeline parallelism.