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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <27BC5C31.388@tct.uucp>
Date: 15 Feb 91 22:09:53 GMT
References: <9102142034.AA24002@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to NER034%PRIME-A.TEES-POLY.AC.UK@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV:
>Most (if not all) 'C' system run a grate [sic] deal slower than FORTH.

Bzzt.  Sorry, but thank you for playing.

Remember: A programmer inexperienced or talentless with Language X
will generate slow programs using Language X for all values of X.

Any Forth program can be recoded in C and it will run at equivalent,
if not greater, speed.  It may require more memory, however, and it
will certainly be more difficult to play around with.  But it will be
fast.

>2) Some processors (such as the 8051) have grate [sic] difficulties with
>   any form of C system.

Granted; but that's what cross-compilation is for, after all.

>3) The C string words are (as you would say) Brain Damaged.

Also granted.  I wrote my own and I feel much better now.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
 "I want to mention that my opinions whether real or not are MY opinions."
             -- the inevitable William "Billy" Steinmetz