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- Subject: Re: Re: Re Atari BASIC versis Python versus Lua in 1982...
- From: Frank Kastenholz <fkastenholz@...>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:31:08 -0500 (CDT)
On 03/17/17, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>2017-03-17 9:26 GMT+02:00 sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski@grouse.com.au>:
>> On 03/17/17 15:14, Martin <...> wrote:
>
>>> Looks like author compares programming languages by comparing
>>> implementations. It's like comparing mathematicians by their
>>> body mass.
>>>
>>> But interesting question, if Lua was released say in 1982, would
>>> it eliminated BASIC family?
>
>The main selling point of Basic was that its interpreter was small
>enough to fit into an 8K ROM.
A significant selling point of Lua is that it fits in <<1mbyte of storage.
Frank Kastenholz
