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On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:43:50 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>losing performance. Conversely, I'm sure Python could also have been
>implemented on top of BASIC if someone felt like it, though what the
>advantages might be I have no idea. But performance is not (or should

	You'd be able to run it on a TI99/4 (in which the BASIC interpreter,
itself, was run on an interpreter... nothing like taking the first "16-bit"
home computer and shackling it with an interpreted language that was run on
an interpreted language)
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