From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Demos (Was How the Quake source got out) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:33:09 -0400 Organization: Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu Lines: 25 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <338ED715.5521@cornell.edu> References: Reply-To: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0059.cit.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Adam wrote: > > 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. > how about converting the lines you enter into strings of tokens (i think most basics do this ... they do not read 'p','r','i','n','t' everytime you run a program. so, in essence, basic programs also get converted to byte-code (to use the currently fashionable phrase.) -- Sinan ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ Unsolicited e-mail is _not_ welcome, and will be billed for. *******************************************************************