-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <35C20839.43A1@nmol.com>, on 07/31/98 at 12:08 PM, bill payne <billp@nmol.com> said:
Java is similar to FORTH. FORTH executes super-slow on high-level in most machines. About 10% of the speed of a compiled-language program - such as Visual Basic.
FORTH 10% of VB!! ROTHLMAO!!!! Obviously whoever wrote that doesn't have a clue when it comes to FORTH. I have old FORTH code I wrote years ago and even running interpreted (and yes FORTH can be compiled) it is faster than anything the brain-dead Micky$loth crowd could ever dream of writting in VB. Add to the fact that your average FORTH programmer has a much higher skill set than your typical VB programmer and is capable of writting fast, tight code (when have you ever heard fast, tight code used to describe a VB program?) <sigh> why am I not surprised to see yet another "journalist" clue-impaired. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: Windows? Homey don't play that! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNcJf049Co1n+aLhhAQGzCwP/eBpCcTNbaqWTdl7lUVTz7UuV53J3r0FZ +VZLGBmpJYCo/wZZVMahM4LZ4KFgOGFBBiydapLeaoztT21vRtNwraWe8JQFjmUA oa6EtM5bdKYBgaaO0kzplCf4e7qLQ8whiVc0PekscZqM6tSV43jJs3wO6LbL54T6 5FpeP2ir+iE= =hQxK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----