#: 12265 S3/Languages
    16-Sep-91  03:16:42
Sb: #12263-#Basic-09 + RunB vs. C
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227 (X)

Shudder--you said the T-word (tokenized).  I-code is like Pascal P-code, in a
way; it's code for an abstract machine.  If one really wanted to, one could
create a chip that ran it directly, as someone did for P-code.

(Of course, one could claim that the tokenized form of generic Microsoft BASIC
is code for an abstract machine, too, but the transformation done to get from
what one types to that form is pretty trivial, and the abstract machine would
be quite ugly and inefficient.)

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