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Article #623600Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 15:22
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 15:22
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On 03/06/2018 14:18, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:07:09 -0400 > 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. > For compactness (and also write-only-non-readable code) FORTH takes the biscuit. Unfortunately some big systems have been implemented in FORTH, but only because the programmer with ten year's experience had only 1 week's experience repeated 519 times :-(
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