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Re: Forth vs Assembler
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:20:53 GMT
Original-From: 
Ben Williamson <(benw@pobox.)AvoidSpam(com)>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, John Barnes wrote:

> Very cryptic by the looks! Why not use honest to goodness assembly language
> to do this stuff. It's really very easy, especially on Motorola CPUs.

It's especially easy to program in assembly for whatever CPU architecture
you happen to be familiar with.  If you've got a background in Motorola
parts, that makes them easy for you.  I grew up on Z80 and ARM, so it's
different for me.  BTW, the RCX has a Hitachi part.  :)

- Ben.

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Ben Williamson       benw@pobox.com     http://www.pobox.com/~benw/



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  Forth vs Assembler
 
Since observing these Lego email broadcasts, I've been wondering what Forth was. Engineering background, not CS! Now I know, after reading Ralph Hempel's "RE: Mindstorms/reinforcement learning". Very cryptic by the looks! Why not use honest to (...) (27 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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