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From: plewe@ks.mpi-dortmund.mpg.de (J.Plewe)
Subject: Re: Forth (was Re: Real-time systems:  Windows-NT or QNX)
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Ran Talbott (rant@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: In <38b4u5$isa@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> kmgibbs@ix.netcom.com (Kent Gibbs) writes: 

: >but it does seem to be fast and robust. 

: Compared to what?  BASIC?  Sure.  C?  No.  The very structure of
: most Forth systems means that they're *always* going to have a 
: significant run-time overhead.  Which is acceptable in some cases,
: and intolerable in others.

Oh oh. This information is from the early eighties! Meanwhile there are
Forth implementations which generate optimized native code. 

: >I guess I don't understand the bad reputation.

As I mentioned earlier (somewhere): It is not really a reputation. It is
a rumour spread be people who don't understand Forth.

- Joerg

