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Article #623582Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Quadibloc
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:21
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:21
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On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 3:09:44 PM UTC-6, Sarr Blumson wrote: > And, to kick one of my favorite dead horses, Dartmouth BASIC was > NOT an interpreter. It compiled to real machine code. Other > implementations varied. Yes, that's quite true, it was, I presume, one of those "load-and-go" compiler systems; quite a few of those had already been written for FORTRAN by that time. But _after_ Dartmouth BASIC, nearly all the other implementations were interpreters. Quite a bit later, of course, it was considered worthwhile to make compilers for BASIC that let you save the object... CBASIC, Borland's Turbo BASIC, and so on. Microsoft's BASICA, GW-BASIC, and so on, were interpreters, while QBASIC compiled, although it didn't let you save the object - a lot like the original Dartmouth BASIC. John Savard
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