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From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen NE Bos)
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Subject: Re: C Compiler for HP48SX
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Date: 26 Jun 91 09:34:38 GMT
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ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (Occupational Health Ochealth Safety) writes:
[About a C compiler]
>Thought for the day: wouldn't a FORTH compiler be a little easier to implement?

What?!

The HP48 has the most sophisticated Forth compiler ever written.  If you mean
compiling (whatever the language) to machine code, you'll need a bunch of
library routines that eat up RAM.  The actual code is a bunch of calls to the
routines.
If you do this, why not use internal RPL?  The ROM is you library, programs
are extremely small, you can mix in machine code whenever you like, it is very
fast (only three instructions per routine!), and hopefully, HP will support us
in the near future (hopefully).