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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- Subject: Re: VAX Basic-like Basic for PC?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.225023.28418@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:50:23 GMT
- References: <cos.722111275@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In article 722111275@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu, cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes:
- >roth@csoadm.enet.dec.com (Lee Roth) writes:
- >>Any suggestions as to which PC Basic would fill the following requirements?
- >>
- >>1) Compiler to produce standalone runnable programs (no interpreter baggage,
- >
- >What is "interpreter baggage"? That aside, there are a variety of
- >BASIC compilers for the PC that will produce standalone executables.
- >The only ones I'm aware of that *don't* do this are the interpreters
- >that come bundled with DOS (BASICA, GWBASIC, QBASIC).
-
- Uh, unless I'm mistaken, Visual Basic, The Realizer, and even GFA Basic do not
- (at least, not currently) provide support for compilation of source code into
- standalone EXE files. I'm sure what Lee was referring to is the run-time
- library that has to accompany "compiled" BASIC programs such as these Windows
- versions. I'm not sure if Visual Basic for DOS has a "true" compiler or not.
-
- Of the Windows Basics, only GFA has promised a true compiler RSN. :)
- Hopefully one will be made available for VB 2.0 but the MS folks I spoke with
- said no comment. Maybe that's a good sign? :)
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