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Article #623584Re: The birth of BASIC
From: John Levine
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 02:44
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 02:44
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In article <cb11f87e-44a9-4f0b...@googlegroups.com>, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >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. Dartmouth's compiler was quite impressive, typically compiling an entire program in one or two clock ticks. It was so fast that nobody bothered to save object code. Later implementations tended to be tokenize and interpret, which has plenty of its own issues. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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