Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:07

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On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:23:56 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>
> On 02/06/2018 03:44, John Levine wrote:
>> In article <cb11f87e-44a9-4f0b...@googlegroups.com>,
>> Quadibloc  <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> 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.
>
> Interesting, does that also indicate interactive development where
> the compilation speed would be largely unapparent?

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?
-- 
Andreas

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