Re: Why is compiled basic slower than C? (Basic is the future)

burley@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) writes:
      Nevertheless, interpreters are still, to varying degrees
      for each language, easier to write than compilers.


True. I could write a small interpreter, be it for Basic or Lisp, with a
fairly reasonable effort, because I could write it without any competence
in (my case) Sparc assembly. If I were to write a compiler for the same
language, I would have to start worrying about register windows and all
that stuff.


When it comes to the early personal computer Basic interpreters, though, I
would suspect that people writing them were more fluent with assembly that
high level languages.
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Pertti Kellom\"aki
    Tampere Univ. of TeXnology
            Software Systems Lab
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