Re: Basic Compilers for the Macintosh

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From: Richard Siegel
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1986 02:07

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Microsoft just released a Basic compiler. This Basic is completely
source-compatible with the interpreted Basic, but it has the advantage of
having been implemented by someone other than Microsoft. This Basic compiler
was done by Absoft, who implemented MacFortan (later called Microsoft
Fortran). If the Absoft Basic is anything at all like their Fortran, then you
can expect a moderately slow compiler, code quality which is incredible, and
floating-point speed which is on the order of 10 times faster than the Mac's
built-in SANE math routines.

Absoft, by the way, also does Fortran for other 68000 machines, and has
special versions of MacFortran for 68020/68881 machines (like the HyperDrive
2000 and the Levco Prodigy)...

I have no affiliation with Absoft, save as a Pascal programmer who's used
their Fortran...

		--Rich

Richard M. Siegel

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