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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: wanted - basic compiler
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Date: 28 Mar 89 03:33:29 GMT
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Nick DiMasi asks:
 
>> I do agree though, that for sheer speed (almost as fast as 6502 assembly
>> code), the ACTION language was the winner..
>> ......
>>  
>> BobR
 
>Why did you write this in the past tense?  Is there now a compiler that 
>produces faster object code than ACTION! ?  (Not that I would want it,
>I don't even have much time to write programs anymore, although I'm working
>on it...)

Sorry..  just being fatalistic (or realistic, perhaps) about the idea of
doing ANY coding on a 6502 machine anymore..
 
No, I doubt that ACTION will ever be surpassed by anything other than pure
assembly code..   I remember when OSS visited the local user group (MACE),
and put on a terrific demo of the *new* ACTION! language cartridge...
blew the socks off everyone in the place...!
 
And, as far as I know, there was *nothing* that even came close, for any
other 6502 based computer...
 
BobR