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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Forth Education: Introductory
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Date: 28 Jul 90 23:32:21 GMT
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 Date: 07-26-90 (20:33)              Number: 1671 (Echo)
   To: MATTHIAS GIWER                Refer#: 1667
 From: DOJUN YOSHIKAMI                 Read: 07-27-90 (11:53)
 Subj: LEARNING FORTH                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 ML = Machine language ... I assume.  I agree.  Machine language makes
 you worry about a few too many things when your attention is better
 elsewhere.  Forth lets you dip into machine code when you really need
 the speed without the overhead of the address interpreter.  Of interest,
 I recently found that F83 is a wee bit faster than Microsoft Fortran
 despite the fact that there is still the overhead for the address
 interpreter.  Interesting, no?  [This was a little program to calculate
 PI, and it used a terrible algorithm...]

 dy ;-)
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