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In article 722111275@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu, cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes:
>roth@csoadm.enet.dec.com (Lee Roth) writes:
>>Any suggestions as to which PC Basic would fill the following requirements?
>>
>>1) Compiler to produce standalone runnable programs (no interpreter baggage,
>
>What is "interpreter baggage"?  That aside, there are a variety of
>BASIC compilers for the PC that will produce standalone executables.
>The only ones I'm aware of that *don't* do this are the interpreters
>that come bundled with DOS (BASICA, GWBASIC, QBASIC).

Uh, unless I'm mistaken, Visual Basic, The Realizer, and even GFA Basic do not
(at least, not currently) provide support for compilation of source code into
standalone EXE files.  I'm sure what Lee was referring to is the run-time
library that has to accompany "compiled" BASIC programs such as these Windows
versions.  I'm not sure if Visual Basic for DOS has a "true" compiler or not.

Of the Windows Basics, only GFA has promised a true compiler RSN.  :)
Hopefully one will be made available for VB 2.0 but the MS folks I spoke with
said no comment.  Maybe that's a good sign?  :)
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