Re: A86: A TI compiler - Why not?

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Subject: Re: A86: A TI compiler - Why not?
From: Cliff320@aol.com
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:34:03 EDT
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In a message dated 4/27/99 05:42:25 PM Central Daylight Time, 
nmasj@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt writes:

> I've noted that here there's an "anti-compiler" feeling.
>   If BASIC is too slow, and asm is too dificult, why not
>   a mid-term? Why not to join the confort of a high-level
>   language as BASIC with the speed of a low-level language
>   as asm? "Asm-lovers" don't have to leave asm, and we know
>   the best of the best programs will always come from asm,
>   but certainly many people out there could do good stuf
>   with a language in between BASIC and asm.
>   In my seeing, TI86's memory can handle it, specially if
>   the compiler has shared librarys. Yes, it'll take more
>   space than asm programs but, hey, there's always a price
>   to pay. It's all trade offs.
>  
>   NSJ

sounds good, but do you know how hard it is to write a compiler, let alone on 
for a calculator

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