Re: bashing BASIC (Was: Functions without side effects)

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1 total messages Started by Stavros Macrakis Fri, 14 Jun 1991 16:50

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Author: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 16:50

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sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) says:

   ...It was a good and consistent principle in BASIC that every
   statement began with a verb.  I can imagine that it made parsing,
   error analysis, etc. a lot easier.  Especially for a language that
   was designed to be interpreted, and for the 60's state-of-the-art
   in language implementation.

Starting all statements with a verb may be a good idea, but it has
nothing to do with interpretive execution.

Basic was not designed to be interpreted, and its very first
implementation (at Dartmouth) was compiled.  It was a
compile-load-and-go system, so the user didn't see a separate
compilation phase, and the compiled code was normally thrown away
after execution, but it _was_ compiled.

	-s

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