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From: blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Computer languages on the various Apple Corp computers
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Date: 23 May 89 03:12:10 GMT
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In article <8905211959.AA07195@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!nelson@nosc.mil writes:
> [...]
>The reason for this is simple - high-level languages are terribly impractical
>on the 6502 based //. They are fairly tough to make run on the 65816.
	I agree with the bit about doing high-level languages on the 6502, but
not about the 65816 - it has support for stackframes, large data sets, and
pretty much everything else necessary for high-level languages. Sure, the
65816 doesn't have ops that are as powerful as, say, the 68000, but, gee, isn't
that what RISC is all about?

>nelson@pro-europa.cts.com                                  cogito ergo non sum

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