On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 at 12:07:46, Lau wrote:
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Tony Firshman wrote:
subcontinental
...The one I knew.
uncomplimentary
...The one I partially discount because of the "y".
duoliteral
...A silly word - what does it mean?
http://www.thesaurus-dictionary.com/files/d/u/o/duoliteral.html
...The one I knew.
arterious
...I think I may have come across this one before... but I doubt you
can add "ly" to it.
annelidous
...pertaining to annelids? I think you've made this one up!
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020803/windows/roots.htm
How about a puzzle thread on here?
Q. What's the longest monosyllabic word? (Clue: ryrira yrggref)
As you coded 11 letters, I will go for
French - Schtroumpfs
English has scraunched, strenghted & scroonched.
How about the geometric mean of our two responses - that would be
128 bytes - but even better would be 124 bytes, which will have long
alignment going for it and will certainly save some code (you can do
it with MOVEQ).
Great to see you still thinking this way Lau. You are the master of
code saving. I will never forget your use of JMP instead of JSR in
bp.init.
How many bytes was your Forth (and a good implementation so you
said) - 4k?
Now you're asking... the original was implemented as a Spectrum Basic
program that multi-pass executed/interpretted itself to generate the
machine code for Forth in screen memory. 600 bytes is a number that
rings a bell. The 4K was the enhanced QL version.
Some enhancement at six times the size.
Muses... that would be a project... A QL ROM without SuperBasic, but
with multitasking OO Forth instead. Lots faster, but maybe a few
compatibility problems. Any takers?
Not me (8-)
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