25 Mar
2002
25 Mar
'02
6:34 p.m.
At 04:05 PM 25/03/2002 -0500, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
It depends on which DEC BASIC. VAX BASIC was both an interpreter and a
compiler. I tended to use the compiler - earned a living once programming a
student records system in VAX BASIC, FMS and Indexed Sequential files.
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For a while I
used Turbo Basic under MS-DOS. It was an
incredible development environment... for a BASIC ... running
under MS-DOS... Ok, so it was "passable." Still :)
I hear that DEC BASIC is good, too.
Both of the above examples are compilers, though, I think.
While it's possible that DEC BASIC was an early adopter
of incremental compilation techniques, I don't think so...
I'm pretty sure DEC BASIC is a simple interpreter. I guess
I should look at the source...