QL (was: ZX-81 Question)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Mon Mar 25 15:05:09 2002

> 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...

-dq
Received on Mon Mar 25 2002 - 15:05:09 GMT