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Re: What is advanced? (was Re: Pascal to Basic converter)

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From: David Singleton
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00
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Marc van den Dikkenberg <pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl> wrote:


> >POINTERS
> 
> One word:
> 
> PowerBasic.
> 
> (PB 3.2 Does support pointers. Basic didn't get stuck in the mid-sixties,
> you know... And there are also non M$-Basics...)
> 

yeah - but *why* would you *ever* want to program
in Basic when BP _compiles_ the program in less time
than for example Qbasic takes to initialise the interpreter!

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From: david@tickle.clara.net (David Singleton)
Subject: Re: What is advanced? (was Re: Pascal to Basic converter)
Date: 1997/02/18
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