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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Woah!  Language!
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"Robotboy8" <robotboy8@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20011109221345.22895.00002556@mb-fq.aol.com...
> I was thinking instead of having a seperate interpereter program you could
have
> an intermediate program that would translate z-code into machine-code on
the
> fly (instead of using some zmachine-to-exe compiler.)

So you end up interpreting the z-code?  How is that 'intermediate
translator' any different from a 'separate interpreter'?  Both take z-code
in one end and turn it into native code...

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