Re: LZ: Re: your mail

Subject: Re: LZ: Re: your mail
From: c684852@showme.missouri.edu <c684852@showme.missouri.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 16:04:44 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <v01540b00ae4654a9a334@[198.110.68.197]>

On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Jordan Adema wrote:


> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:08:07 -0400
> From: Jordan Adema <jadema@grfn.org>
> To: list-zshell@defiant.rbk.sollentuna.se
> Subject: Re: LZ: Re: your mail
> 
> > > If that _IS_ what he meant, then it is very possible (of course), for a
> > > PC to convert a ti-basic program to a z80 asm program. Don't know if it's
> > > been written yet. heh. For that matter, I don't know if it's worth
> > > writing :P
> > >
> > > Pixel Dreamer
> > >
> > why isn't that worth writing? there are plenty of worth while 85p programs
> > out there and wouldn't it be nice if they were smaller and faster? i know
> > i would wrrite zshell progs if i understood it all.
> >
> 
> This has all been discussed before many times. The bottom line is that you
> can't translate a program directly to assembly, and even if you could, it
  I don't know where that came from, of course you can translate a higher 
level language down to asm. How else did you think it was done?
 > would be neither small nor fast. > 
  Most TI-BASIC programs converted to machine code (in fact) would not be 
smaller in most cases, but yes, they would be faster.




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Re: LZ: Re: your mail

From: Jordan Adema <jadema@grfn.org>