Programming Basie

Few notes. Make them count.

Basie is a compiled language for Z80 machines. It checks every index, every conversion and every record's lifetime, without a garbage collector or wasted bytes. Each chapter is built around a complete CP/M program. Every program checks its own results as it runs, so a program that finishes has done what the chapter said it would.

You'll start with three numbers and a total. By the end you'll have a small utility that parses commands, allocates records from a fixed pool and reports what it did. Along the way you'll learn to ask four questions of any piece of data: what is stored, where it lives, who may change it and when access ends.

Chapters

• Introduction
• 1. The Life of a Value
• 2. Within Bounds
• 3. Coming and Going
• 4. The Original and the Copy
• 5. In Good Hands
• 6. On Loan
• 7. A Change of Plan
• 8. Room to Work
• 9. A Wider View
• 10. Jobs Come and Go
• 11. Taking the Measure
• 12. A Place for Everything
• 13. One Call Too Many
• 14. Putting It to Work
• 15. Following the Clues