25 Mar
2002
25 Mar
'02
8:53 a.m.
At 04:05 PM 3/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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...
If you're talking about DEC BASIC as implement on VMS, you are wrong:
[Monica] $ basic hello.bas
[Monica] $ link hello
[Monica] $ run hello
Hello, world.
[Monica] $
[Monica] $ basic
VAX BASIC V3.8-000
Ready
It's an interpreter AND a compiler. (this is OpenVMS 7.2).
GZ