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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: ACOS/GBBS (was:Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software))
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Date: 31 May 91 03:54:14 GMT
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In article <1520025@hpcc01.HP.COM> drudman@hpcc01.HP.COM (Drew Rudman) writes:
>GBBS on the other hand provides you with a completely new programming language
>(very similar to basic so the transition is not that difficult) that offers
>text file based source code and a compiler.  No run-time interpretation of
>your system segments.  This results in a faster system.  I looked at Pro-Line
>when I began investigating starting a BBS, but I made the decision to go
>with GBBS because of its programming flexibility.  The ACOS programming
>language does have its quirks, but with improvements such as MACOS and METAL,
>the language has become quite robust and very quick.

	I know almost nothing about ProLine and know little about GBBS...

	But I know that ACOS doesn't have arrays (or at least didn't when
I looked at it last summer to write a full screen editor in).. No arrays
makes a hell of a lot of stuff a pain to write.
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