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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 02:19:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 5 02:19:33 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:29:52 EDT
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No fan fair, but you might want to check out the ACTION! language/compiler
which is marketed by Optimized Systems Software, 1173-D Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd.,
San Jose, CA 95129. It generates fast native 6502 code.
I wish people wouldn't go around saying that it isn't possible to have a good
High Level language for the 6502. It is, maybe not C or PASCAL, but in general
it is only the automatic variables (recursion) of these languages that cause
problems in generating good code. Most programmers don't use recursive routines
in the code they write, so giving up a HLL compiler just for this doesn't make
too much sense. The subset of the ACTION! language implemented on the Atari
and C64 therefore don't support recursion.
Hope that this might help out those looking for a HLL for the 6502.
- Clint