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From: hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug Hall)
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Subject: Re: Mac languages
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 10:10:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 10:10:35 1984
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I don't know when Apple plans to release MacPascal or MacBasic, but I've
seen (and used) both of them in the form of a pre-pre-release(?) version.
Both languages are fast and have excellent user interfaces, assuming what
I saw was representative of the final product. A few rather crude
benchmarks indicated that MacBasic runs 3-5 times faster than the
interpreted BASIC on the IBM-PC. MacPascal seems to be interpreted,
(or perhaps incrementally compiled?) but runs quite fast also.

I think both languages are worth waiting for.


                                Doug Hall
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