A85: Re: Assembly-85 Digest V1 #459

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Subject: A85: Re: Assembly-85 Digest V1 #459
From: TGaArdvark@aol.com
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 21:25:13 EST
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> Yeah, HAL is what I guess you would call a compiled scripting language...
> 
> It's a pseudo-BASIC language which you use to write a program (more like a
> script, I've always thought).  Anyhow, you use a text editor.  Then you run
> the compiler and it will compile your script into a large, slow ASM file.
> 
> Now, I've always used USUL, and I would go through the ASM file and optimize
> (although for the program I wrote, I really couldn't find anything seriously
> wrong).
> 
> It's not as good as writing a program from hand but hey, if you don't know
> ASM and you want to, compare the ASM and HAL files and see exactly what is
> in the ASM file and why.  You'll soon learn what is going on, and will catch
> on to ASM.

I heard rumors of a new version of HAL coming... one that supports
actual TI-Basic.  Supposedly, this new version of HAL lets you give
it direct TI-Basic, giving you the option of compiling or interpreting
what used to be an interpreted-only language.

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