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I can't find where it says he purchased BASIC from a Brooklyn programmer.
Hawkeye7
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Maury, I can't find where it says he purchased BASIC. The closet I can find in the source is "I hired one group, actually it turned out to be just an individual guy in Brooklyn that developed a Basic for 4KPDP8." FWIW, it also doesn't support "To aid its uptake, Ahl personally ported over several popular FOCAL programs, notably the games Lunar Lander and The Sumerian Game, which he renamed Hamurabi."
While we're here: "COMPILER was not a compiler in the modern sense of the word, as it did not generate machine code" but our definition is "The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a lower level language (e.g. assembly language, object code, or machine code) to create an executable program." My understanding is that it was a tokenizer because what it produced was smaller, but still BASIC. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
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The result was: promoted by
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Created by Maury Markowitz ( talk). Self-nominated at 18:46, 12 August 2021 (UTC).
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I can't find where it says he purchased BASIC from a Brooklyn programmer.
Hawkeye7
(discuss) 21:34, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Maury, I can't find where it says he purchased BASIC. The closet I can find in the source is "I hired one group, actually it turned out to be just an individual guy in Brooklyn that developed a Basic for 4KPDP8." FWIW, it also doesn't support "To aid its uptake, Ahl personally ported over several popular FOCAL programs, notably the games Lunar Lander and The Sumerian Game, which he renamed Hamurabi."
While we're here: "COMPILER was not a compiler in the modern sense of the word, as it did not generate machine code" but our definition is "The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a lower level language (e.g. assembly language, object code, or machine code) to create an executable program." My understanding is that it was a tokenizer because what it produced was smaller, but still BASIC. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:34, 14 August 2021 (UTC)