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From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The Mythical Man Month
Keywords: assembler
Message-ID: <7755@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 6 Dec 88 09:46:04 GMT
References: <6176@fluke.COM> <10330090@accuvax.nwu.edu> <6211@fluke.COM>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <6211@fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:
>In article <10330090@accuvax.nwu.edu> bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) writes:
>An interesting example might be FullWrite.  I have zero inside knowledge, but
>I'll go out on a limb and say that it's slowness is due it's design, not the
>implementation language.  An assembly language version would not be
>appreciably faster.
> 
Ever seen WriteNow?  It's really fun to see this program using a debugger.
I watched the spelling checker in action... It's impressive.
I think that one of the main reasons that WriteNow is so fast (and true
WYSIWYG) and small (only 70K) is that it's written in assembly language.
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  -- Jurjen N.E. Bos (jurjen@cwi.nl)