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Article #156Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:53
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:53
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Pat White <pat@pwhite.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In nearly 40 years in computing I've never come across anything in any >language definition that prevents compiling. That includes BASIC which >is where this discussion started and p-code. Likewise, they COULD all be >interpreted, only most companies realise compiling is better. Microsoft >is the exception - they tried and failed badly, anyone remember their >Fortran compiler for the PC. When it compiled without falling over you >were amazed. When you ran the results you were sorry! OTOH, their DOS Basic compilers were fantastic.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netone.netonecom.net!usenet From: viewer@view.city.org (viewer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?" Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:53:55 GMT Organization: view city Message-ID: <31224bc4.6786639@news.netonecom.net> References: <4e9g08$3dp@maureen.teleport.com> <Pine.SUN.3.90.960126125658.2477C-100000@menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu> <sundial.2191.00464727@primenet.com> <DLvxyq.62w@news.hawaii.edu> <4et3p7$79o@cloud9.net> <823335327.28831@williaj.demon.co.uk> <4f8akg$i3k@druid.borland.com> <W1eMJBAdliGxEwNI@pwhite.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: viewer@view.city.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.97.200.50 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141