[Coco] Success! FOCAL lives again!

[Wayne Campbell]

I chuckled when I read this. I'm sure you may already know this, but in case 
you don't, Basic09 *is* an interpreted BASIC language. The difference 
between it and other interpreted BASIC languages is that Basic09 can be 
"packed" into a pseudo-object code known as I-Code (for Intermediate Code). 
RunB interprets the instructions saved in I-Code format and passes the 
instructions on to the processor as actual opcode instructions. Because of 
the way the instructions are stored (RPN), RunB is able to interpret the 
instructions faster than other interpreted BASICs.

While line numbers are not *required* for every line, you can emulate an 
interpreted BASIC program by a) numbering every line, and b) running the 
program in Basic09 (instead of the command line). Because of the debugging 
feature of Basic09, the program will run a little slower in Basic09 that it 
would packed and run from the command line.

Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Success! FOCAL lives again!


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> But hey, before Big John tracked down a copy of RSB and put it on the
> net, there were many times when I thought OS-9 needed a simple
> interpeted language to go along with BASIC-09.
>
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> Willard