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BASIC is closer to assembly than JavaScript, both in complexity and that you can't implement a JavaScript anywhere as simply as you can implement BASIC



Yes. And BASIC could sometimes be compiled to native code. JS is always interpreted.


C64 BASIC was explicitly interpreted.




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