[A83] Re: Ideas.
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[A83] Re: Ideas.
That's a good idea. Are you willing to help design the language? We had
this discussion on A86, and I even volunteered to write the compiler, but no
one was interested in helping. An interpreter would be at least an order of
magnitude slower than a compiled version of the same program, but if all the
time cricital routines (like sprites) are done in optimized assembly, then
it might not matter too much.
> One thing I would like to have is a better BASIC interpreter, but I don't
> know if that's anything within your scope. With things like peek(),
> poke(),
> better label handling (pointers vs. searching), spriteing, graphical
> backbuffers, subroutines, other BASIC progs callable as routines
> (Ti89/92[+] style), file handling, types (char, int, float), etc. Making
> it
> compileable would also be nice. I do know that BASIC isn't "the" language,
> but you should also know that it is about the programming language that
> exists.
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