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  2. From: viewer@view.city.org (viewer)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
  5. Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:53:55 GMT
  6. Organization: view city
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  13. Pat White <pat@pwhite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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  15. >In nearly 40 years in computing I've never come across anything in any
  16. >language definition that prevents compiling. That includes BASIC which
  17. >is where this discussion started and p-code. Likewise, they COULD all be
  18. >interpreted, only most companies realise compiling is better. Microsoft
  19. >is the exception - they tried and failed badly, anyone remember their
  20. >Fortran compiler for the PC. When it compiled without falling over you
  21. >were amazed. When you ran the results you were sorry!
  22.  
  23. OTOH, their DOS Basic compilers were fantastic.
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