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by kragen 429 days ago
The interpreted BASIC on most home computers was Microsoft BASIC-80, which, as I remember it, was also painfully slow. There were lots of programs in it, and it was good enough for some games, but for the most part "real software" for those computers was written in assembly language. Even Turbo Pascal was written in assembly language, not Pascal.

I think now we know how to do better.