On 14-11-2009 19:11, nemesis wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> http://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html
> 
> I know that guy, he's from the lambda-the-ultimate web forums. :)  He also
> mentions magnificent Infocom implementor Brian Moriarty of Trinity's fame, so
> that's 10 geek points to him.
> 
> While he does put the python version to run 1000x over the Basic version, he
> doesn't acknowledge the difference between 1984 hardware and, say, a P4.  Yes,
> undoubtedly any interpreted language nowadays is faster than old, line-by-line
> intepreted Basic, but I guess not by the insane numbers he purports.  Put that
> qbasic to run that program on the same hardware as Python and let's talk... 5
> points taken. :)
> 

He was specifically comparing it with his (ours I am afraid) experience 
with 8 bit hardware at *that* time. So you can not take points away for 
that.

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