[Coco] a désigne document about BASIC for the 8080 & 6800- Microsoft

[James Jones]

As Mr. Evans says, limited resources just about forces an interpreter. The
sad part is that the interpreter persisted after the constraints were gone,
leaving people without reasonable control or data structures, without local
variables, and having to contort their code (packing as much as possible on
each line because line numbers use up memory, finagling variable references
so that the interpreter's linear search symbol table lookup didn't take
quite as long on frequently-referenced variables) to deal with the
interpreter's limitations--though none of that got rid of the overhead of
having to interpret each statement each time it was executed. (Didn't
people also store numeric values in variables to avoid making the
interpreter rescan and reconvert them from text over and over?)

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Salvador Garcia <
ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net> wrote:

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> Maybe in 1975 an interpreter made sense, but the technology should have
> returned to compilers once the needed resources were available. I believe
> that one aspect that doomed BASIC was that it was considered a toy language
> because it was interpreted. Still, this is a very interesting document.
> Thanks for sharing! Salvador
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> I don't know if this has been posted here before, so here it goeshttp://
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