6809 vs. '286 (long - Was: Re: Still OT: Pentium / M$

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Mon Jan 4 21:50:20 1999

Allison J Parent wrote:

> Rogue, is a good example of how code went from ASM to C, PASCAL, or whatever
> and grew huge in the process.

Matt Arnold wrote Rogue in C from day one. It started as an exercise
in in the Curses/vi interface and grew. Rogue (and several of its
descendents, like Hack, Omega and Nethack) are actually good programs
for testing compiler efficiency -- they're naturally invalid at
showing off processor speed, they're not arcade games. As far as I
know, Rogue was never done in anything except C, though Epyx might
have used some assembly bits in their commercial products.

ADVENT has been done in Fortran, BASIC, Pascal, Assembly X dozen, and
probably Ada by this point -- it's probably been done in SQL. That
might be what you thought of in a bloating program, CPU and language.
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