QL (was: ZX-81 Question)

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Tue Mar 26 02:34:46 2002

At 04:05 PM 25/03/2002 -0500, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> > 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...

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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