Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:18

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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:

> I guess I am missing a link here. Why did none of the BASICs coming with
> the 8bit micros need a compiler and rather interpret the code instead?

	Because for an interactive system where the language and the CLI
are one and the same (most 8 bit home micros) an interpreted language is
pretty much essential.

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