Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Alan Bowler
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:12

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On 2018-06-02 7:23 AM, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> On 02/06/2018 03:44, John Levine wrote:

>> 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.

Since the 635 and several generations of successors
were asynchronous machines I'm not clear what is
meant by "clock tick"
> 
> Interesting, does that also indicate interactive
> development where
> the compilation speed would be largely unapparent?

*date
06/04/18 10:08:23
*list
10 let x=0
20 for i= 1 to 10
30 let x = x + i
40 next i
50 print x


*run



           55


ready
*date
06/04/18 10:08:23

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From: Alan Bowler <atbo...@thinkage.ca>
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Subject: Re: The birth of BASIC
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