On (15 Apr 97) Steve Bennett wrote to Rick Collins...
 SB> Hi Rick,
SC> Really?  Does BASIC not allow "assembly language" statements?  Yup,
SC> it does.  And that essentially means you can write a virus in BASIC.
SC> And people have - it's not "theory": it's fact.
 SB> Oooh...that sounds sneaky.  Sure, you could probably write a program
 SB> in C, compile to a .OBJ, then link it with Basic and call it a Basic
 SB> program...is that what you're getting at?  Apart from that I didn't
 SB> think you could have assembly langauge statements, apart from a few
 SB> things in qlb's like Interrupt 86x and the likes...you certainly can't
 SB> inline asm into basic.
Depends on which basic you are useing.....  Turbo Basic, now Power 
Basic would letter you do inline Assembly.  GWBasic would alow you 
to define a machince language code not inline must be already 
assembled and relocatable, and all MS basics I beleive will still 
let you do that?
Gordon
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