Don Bruder wrote:
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.)
This was the compiler known as The Applesoft Compiler, TASC. It was slow, but it was written in Applesoft and then compiled using itself. How many self-hosted compilers were there for the Apple II? -michael New, faster SUDOKU v2.0 solver for Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."