T3X/0

A Minimal Procedural Language

T3X/0 is a small, portable, procedural, block-structured, recursive, and almost typeless programming language, and the latest member of the T3X family of languages. Its compiler is freely available (0BSD license or public domain). T3X/0 syntax is similar to Pascal, its semantics resembles BCPL's.

T3X/0 is used as a teaching language in the book
Write Your Own Retro Compiler.

It is formally defined in the book The T3X Programming Language – Formal Definition.

Here is the simplest "Hello World" program in T3X/0:

USE t3x: t;
DO t.write(T3X.SYSOUT, "Hello, World!\r\n", 15); END

(Of course this program cuts some corners, so here are some more correct versions.)

Here are some more interesting programs written in T3X/0:

Simple Examples

More (or Less) Serious Programs

If you want to learn more about the T3X/0 language, here is

A Very Short T3X/0 Summary

The T3X/0 Language Reference

T3X/0 currently runs on

Unix (386, ARMv6, ARMv7, and x86-64 in 32-bit mode)
FreeBSD-386 (static code backend, LIBC not needed)
{PC,MS,DR,etc}-DOS 2.0 and later
CP/M 2.2
The TCVM (Tcode Virtual Machine)

It is self-hosting on all supported platforms and can cross-compile to all supported 16-bit platforms.

Download the Compiler

t3x0-21c.zip (current version, ~215KB): This is the full source code to the compiler (in T3X/0) and the runtime libraries (in Z80, 8086, and 386 assembly language, and in C). The archive also contains an implementation of the Tcode Virtual Machine in C, a TCVM binary for DOS, additional libraries, example programs, documentation, and pre-compiled compiler binaries for the Tcode machine, CP/M, DOS, and FreeBSD. What's new since the book version?
t3x0-12.zip (book version, ~200KB): This is the same as above, but the version frozen at the time when the book was published.
t3x0dos.zip (DOS binaries, ~20KB): A pre-compiled T3X/0 compiler for DOS, including all libraries in DOS text format. Intended to be installed in C:\T3X0. When installed somewhere else, it will only work in its own directory.
t3x0cpm.zip (CP/M binaries, ~60KB): A pre-compiled T3X/0 compiler for CP/M, including all libraries in CP/M text format. Works only on the disk drive where it is installed. Warning: ZIP file extracts into the working directory, because CP/M has no directories. The ZIP file is uncompressed, so it should extract under CP/M.

Supported Systems

Some Compiler Statistics

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