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Re: beagle compiler



In article <huugg29uo6u0g0is3u9gjneed84vkolauc@4ax.com>,
 "Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have any direct help, but there was another compiler for
> Applesoft that came out a couple of years before the Beagle one,
> although I think the Beagle one was "better". Can anyone name that
> other compiler? I think I first took Telengard and compiled it and it
> was about 5x faster.

That would be the Microsoft Applesoft Basic compiler. It sucked serious 
ass. I could almost literally "hand compile" my code faster, and come up 
with cleaner, less bloated ML besides. (Which should probably come as no 
surprise -  Even in the early days, Microsoft code sucked.)

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