Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:23

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On 02/06/2018 03:44, John Levine wrote:
> 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.

Interesting, does that also indicate interactive development where
the compilation speed would be largely unapparent?

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