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MIRROR of https://codeberg.org/catseye/SICKBAY : An eso-BASIC with a call ring buffer and computed line numbers

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/catseye/sickbay
• Owner: catseye
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2012-09-23T04:22:33.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-03T15:39:53.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-12-03T16:28:19.473Z (12 months ago)
• Topics: basic, esolang, esoteric-language, esoteric-programming-language
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://catseye.tc/node/SICKBAY
• Size: 21.5 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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SICKBAY

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_Wiki entry_ [@ esolangs.org](https://esolangs.org/wiki/SICKBAY)

| _See also:_ [ILLGOL](https://codeberg.org/catseye/Illgol-Grand-Mal#illgol-grand-mal)

∘ [yucca](https://codeberg.org/catseye/yucca#yucca)

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SICKBAY is an esoteric dialect of BASIC with two salient features:

*   While most BASICs support a call stack which is used to implement `GOSUB`

    and `RETURN`, SICKBAY uses a _call ring buffer_, which supports not only

    `GOSUB` and `RETURN` but also `PROLONG` and `CUTSHORT`.

*   While some BASICs support computed line numbers in `GOTO` and `GOSUB`,

    SICKBAY supports computed line numbers only in line number definitions.

    It thus lacks an `IF` statement because, similar to [Strelnokoff][], it

    doesn't need one.

This is the reference distribution for SICKBAY.  It contains:

*   the normative description (i.e. specification) of the language -- see the

    file [`SICKBAY.md`](doc/SICKBAY.md) in the `doc` directory.

*   other notes on the language, also in the `doc` directory.

*   SAWBONES, Cat's Eye Technologies' reference implementation of SICKBAY,

    written in Python, in the `script` directory.

*   several small example SICKBAY programs in the `eg` directory.

For more information on the language, see the [SICKBAY article][] on the

[esolangs.org wiki][].

Other Implementations

---------------------

Jeremy List has written a SICKBAY interpreter in Haskell.  It can be found

here: [sickbay.hs][].

[Strelnokoff]: https://catseye.tc/projects/strelnokoff/

[SICKBAY article]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/SICKBAY

[esolangs.org wiki]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/

[sickbay.hs]: https://gist.github.com/quickdudley/51660f98be16653682cf9a8249a57dcb