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by CyberFonic 5783 days ago
Many years ago I wrote a Data General (now owned by EMC and no longer making computers) Business Basic to C translator. Used it to port a suite of programs to Unix system. So the technique can work. But I agree with Russell, that Python would be a better target these days. You would need to take care to ensure that the generated source code is easy to read and modify by those who are familiar with the BB original.