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On this day Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:06:19 GMT, some guy named eglebbk AT dds DOT nl (Evert
Glebbeek) wrote:

><snip>
>>  And AFAIK, there are no time-limited versions
>>of compilers.  

>Years ago, a BASIC compiler called PowerBASIC was released in both a
>commercial and try-before-you buy version. This had a thirty-day limit
>but. I'm not sure if the limit was enforced though, since I only tried
>it for a week and decided that the fact that it couldn't load any
>sources kept me from checking it out properly. Dumped BASIC altogether
>soon after.

Apologies.  When I think of the word compiler, only C/C++ and Objective-C come
to mind (okay, sometimes Pascal...).

BASIC sucks.  BASIC compilers, therefore, suck. ;)

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