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From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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Subject: Re: GW-BASIC compiler???
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Date: 27 Jun 91 22:15:50 GMT
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fzcapit@MIZAR.UCDAVIS.EDU (John Capitanio) writes:
>
>I've just written a little routine for data analysis in GW-BASIC,
>and was wondering if a compiler exists for this implementation
>of the language.  I used a BASIC compiler on a PICK system 
>years ago, so I know there *are* compilable BASICs.  Is this
>one, and if so, can someone point me toward a good (read cheap)
>one?

You'll probably get flamed for posting about BASIC on the net,
but in fact there is a nice, structured implementation of the 
language that you can get for MS-DOS called QuickBasic.  I got
a copy for my 5 year-old, and played with it myself for a while.
It's neat.  It's kind of like a BASIC/Pascal portmanteau.

Call Microsoft.

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   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer