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Subject: Re: ALICE interactive programming environment for ST
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Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 14:16:19 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 14 14:16:19 1986
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In article  rs4u#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) writes:
>
>Sounds nice, but how fast is the compiler?

Sorry about the confusion.  Alice does not contain a compiler.  It is
a programming environment with an interpreter.  While the interpreter
is naturally slower at running programs, the idea is that you develop
and test with the interpreter, then pick 'compile' off the menu and it
calls your Pascal compiler on your program.  In your configuration file
you specify where your compiler is and how to call it.

You don't need a compiler for many programs.  Programs that are keyboard
bound (or event bound, as many GEM programs are) usually work just fine.

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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473