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- From: jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: How magic is the CompileIt?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.175900.5549@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:59:00 GMT
- References: <15742.2A9EB161@zeus.ieee.org> <1992Aug29.193803.9842@cs.hw.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug29.193803.9842@cs.hw.ac.uk>, aafloy@cs.hw.ac.uk (Hans Aafloy) writes:
- >
- > In article <15742.2A9EB161@zeus.ieee.org> Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart) writes:
- > >Please be sure to tell us how well it worked for you. I contacted the company
- > >who makes it, and they said 5-20 times faster, depending on what you compile.
- >
- > To me it seemed to only compile a subset of the HyperTalk language.
- > E.g screen operations wasn't very affected, though character and
- > number manipulations was done with 'full speed' if the operations
- > were on variables and not on fields.
- > So I could as well written those XCMDs in 'C'
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- Having never used the product (but knowing folks who have) I must say this.
-
- What if you don't know C? I think that is why CompileIt was designed. And to
- be honest HyperTalk is a nicer language for small projects. The string
- manipulation leaves anything I have ever used in the dust. Where else can you
- say get word one of chunk and get from the char 1 to the first space? Not hard
- to do in C, but how about get word 4 of chunk? No StdLib I know of has that.
-
- Anyway my opinion for what it's worth.
-
- Jer,
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