On 31/03/2014 8:44 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:58:46 -0500, John McKown wrote:
Of all the languages which I have personally used. I loved Borland's Delphi
(loosely base on Modula II) the best.
I was absolutely blown away when I first saw Delphi - not so much with the
language itself, but that IDE !!! What an eye opener.
I see a couple of versions still with doco in the bookcase in the (home) office
- next to the CD of battle-chess. Ahhh, thems was the days ... :0)
Now every time you turn around there's another language to look into. Lua, now
what did I do with that lua ...
You will pleased to know that Lua on z will be coming this year
(compliments from my employers) with lots of goodies and execution speed
that can show Java a clean pair of heels in 8 out of 10 benchtests that
run sub-second.
It's small, it's fast and it's dead easy to learn! I will pencil you in
as an alpha tester Shane!
How about this for iterating a 500 cylinder QSAM file in < 1 cpusec?
local f, msg = io.open(arg 1 , "rb, type=record, noseek")
if not f then error(msg) end
repeat
local rec = f:read("*r")
until not rec
Shane .
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