Re: TIB: pxl-testing

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Subject: Re: TIB: pxl-testing
From: Rene Kragh Pedersen <u971168@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 21:10:03 +0100
Organization: DAIMI - Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Jeremy Mullins wrote:
[...]
> Tokenization is what it's doing the first time it's run and it's just
> sitting there working for a while.  A lot of people mistakingly think it's
> compiling.  What it's doing it taking all of the calculator function (sin,
> cos, rand, ect.) and turning them into tokens representing their function so
> the calc doesn't interpret them as words.

That's right, BASIC is not compiled, it is interpreted.
The difference is that when you run a BASIC program you won't find the
syntax errors until you reach them :-)

-- 
          Rene Kragh Pedersen
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man: Why did you get a divorce?
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