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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:39:37 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Re: Warpstock 2003 Presentation

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Tom has a wonderfully succinct way of saying things. I like his
viewpoint.

Tom Novelli wrote:
>
> Maybe PL/I or APL or K would be better,
> but they're more complicated and obscure,
> and I just want to get things done.

Yes.

> > Does anyone here seriously believe that any
> > performance difference for equivalent function
> > should exist between symbolic assembly and an HLL?
>
> The difference exists because programmers have
> intuition and compilers don't.

Yes!

Thanks, Tom.

- Peter

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