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From: blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple // BBS software
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Date: 18 Dec 89 02:04:32 GMT
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In article <8912172026.AA18509@apple.com> ST802148@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Evan) writes:
>I think GBBS is the best software for Apple // boards.  It runs under Prodos,
>is very fast (compiles it's code), and is VERY flexible
               ^^^^^^^^

	Actually, it tokenizes its code, and reduces identifiers to numbers.
Although this helps, it's not exactly full compilation...

	It also lacks array support, although some ACOS (name of the GBBS
programming language) folks claim that its i/o package eliminates the need for
arrays. I wouldn't know, as I haven't actually written anything in it.

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