Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> 

> Spider schrieb in Nachricht <36D01BE3.49F920CE@bahnhof.se>...
> 

> >Show me that pascal code, please.
> 

> If I can find it, I'll e-mail it to you. It was in one of the
> news.inprise.com newsgroups (I think it was borland.objectpascal). It s
hould
> have been deleted from my disk by now (I only keep newsgroup messages f
or 60
> days), but I might have saved it somewhere (if I only knew where). Othe
rwise
> try Dejanews or the Delphi Super Page.
Ah, I can try, If I knew what to look for... :-)
 

> But it was the improved algorithm which made the routine faster, not Pa
scal
> of course. I just mentioned this to show, that a clever algorithm is
> sometimes better than a "blind" translation to assembler. And even the 
best
> compilers don't develop algorithms yet.
I agree with you. but, often a specific algorthim is better than a
general one, and most specific algorthims can be coded in asm once it is
in a fast High level language. What I mean is that you gain less if you
only trust that "asm is faster" and don't do a good algorithm first.
Bubble-sort is faster in asm than in pascal, but still slower than
ComboSort, SpeedSort or QuickSort. And theese algorithms would probably
be faster in asm than in pascal. (Don't know, I haven't tried. I'm not
_that_ interested in sorting speeds.)

> BTW BBC-Basic was really a very nice and fast Basic interpreter. I have
 even
> tested a PC version of it once (1985/86). Only the assembler was differ
ent,
> of course. And it had problems with the PC graphic resolutions.

Well, I can't disagree since I haven't tried it. But I can say that I
don't really enjoy BASIC as a language. If you are in need of an
interpreted language, JAVA is better, and If you want a progrmming
language, pascal or c/c++ will be better. pascal for the ease of
learning, and c/c++ for the flexibility of pointers. And, if you want a
visual development that is easy, I'd go for Delphi, since Visual C isn't
very easy to get started with, and a visual java development probably
isn't what you want then.



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