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Subject: Marketing Forth
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Date: 4 Jul 90 01:45:50 GMT
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Category 18,  Topic 25
Message 9         Mon Jul 02, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 23:31 CDT
 
 Ed Borasky  of UseNet writes:
    Pascal, FORTRAN, FORTH, ASSEMBLER, ADA, MODULA are ALL better 
    languages than C.  So how come so many more Bookstore Shelf Inches 
    are devoted to "C"??

 The answer is that, taking Forth for the example, Forth claims to be 
efficient yet blatantly belies that claim by taking up 5 characters in  it's
name, while C is clearly much more efficient in that it requires  only a
single character name.

 (On the other hand, if we measured efficiency by the number of  bookself
inches required by the language, well ....)

 -- Frank
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