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From: Bryan Murphy <bryan DOT murphy AT hcst DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Demos (Was How the Quake source got out)
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:42:17 -0400
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>From: 	Adam[SMTP:adalee AT sendit DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu]
>Sent: 	Thursday, May 29, 1997 11:52 PM
>To: 	Bryan Murphy
>Cc: 	'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'
>Subject: 	RE: Demos (Was How the Quake source got out)
>
>I guess we have different definitions on interpretation...  Well, maybe I
>should just be more specific...  BASIC is considered an interpreted
>language, in that it interprets the actual code that you write, it doesn't
>compile it into something else first...  That's how interpreted languages
>work...  QuakeC is parsed and compiled into something that is, for all
>intentive purposes, illegible to the standard human.
>
>It's legibility has absolutely nothing to do with wether it is 
>interpreted or not.  Assembly is a very illegible language, yet
>it's not interpreted.  People used to program in straight binary
>code.  Interpreting is when a "PROGRAM" reads a bunch of
>instructions from a file, and decides what to do based on those
>instructions, doesn't matter what format they are in.  Compiled
>programs are when the "PROCESSOR" reads it in.  Big, big
>difference.  Compiling it to a shorter form just makes it quicker 
>and easier to read and parse in real time, but doesn't 
>automagically make it a "compiled" program.   
>
>Bryan Murphy (aka Dalroth)
>Web Developer
>HCST, Inc. : http://www.hcst.com/
>Home Page: http://www.hcst.com/~bryan/
>
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