Wasn't there something about pascal or maybe just turbopascal that it was uniquely efficient on x86 or z80? IE it wasn't just an arbitrary language like any other language, it was especially well matched to the cpu, which was why for a while nothing could touch it.
Or maybe it was just thanks to some limits where if some things have hard limits like fixed max sizes or levels of recursion etc then there are various ways you can probably cheat to do the job faster. On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 9:33 AM Ken Pettit <petti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/2/20 3:29 AM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > > Most of my career, and these days, C#, C, JavaScript, Perl, Bash. > > Yeah, the past 20 years, I have only used C, C++, awk and assembly (ARM, > RISC-V and Pico16, a processor I created). Well, plus Verilog for > hardware description of ASICs and testbenches. > > Ken >
