Re: A86: Reader
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Re: A86: Reader
Joseph Gaffney wrote:
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> At 05:14 PM 9/15/97 -0400, MTNBIKE560@aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 97-09-14 21:19:06 EDT, you write:
> >
> ><< speaking of tibasic being slow, has anyone thought of maybe an
> > interpreter that can execute inline asm? that would be really useful for
> > doing simple routines in tibasic, that are hard in asm
> > >>
> >
> >yeah..l was thinking of something along the lines of that. What is the main
> >reason for TI-Basic being slow? is it error checking or something?
>
> It is because it is an interpreted language.
i think TI also adds some lines of code to waste time (not that many
routines need to have error checking for as much time as it wastes). A
secret plot by teachers and TI to discourage playing games on calcs?
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