good book on Pascal

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Sat Oct 26 22:07:07 2002

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> >The Microsoft/IBM FORTRAN was adequate for teaching FORTRAN 77. But the
> >performance was AMAZING! It could actually take longer to run a benchmark
> >like sieve of Erastothanes with compiled FORTRAN than with interpreted
> >BASIC.
>
> I fear this may be similar. It takes 3 disk of code, just to run the
> Pascal compiler ( 280K disk ). If this is any indication, I'd suspect
> the final code isn't all that swift. I just want to play with it a
> little.

Speaking of...

I've noticed that BASIC programs running under the Microsoft QuickBASIC
4.5 interpreter run quite a bit faster than programs compiled by the QB
4.5 compiler. Strange, huh?

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sat Oct 26 2002 - 22:07:07 BST