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Subject: 
Re: Forth vs Assembler
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:20:53 GMT
Original-From: 
Ben Williamson <BENW@nospamPOBOX.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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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