From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T12:04:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Robert Dober:
> 
>> Personally I am surprised to be the only having used Ada and I am even
>> more surprised that Lua missed out at all (I was hoping to see Io and
>> Self too).
>> I am sure there is some folks having experience with these :)
> 
> Well, I for one taught myself Lua. Couple things about it: 1. It is very fast. 
> In some trivial tests I have done it runs with roughly 50% the speed of C, 
> which means it edges out Perl as fastest "interpreted" language in my books.

A good tweaked Forth will tie or beat that record. I guess it depends on
how you define "interpreted" as to whether Forth is legal. :)

> And 2. It uses 'silly' 1 based arrays (tables). See the other thread about 
> that ;)

Forth uses politically correct 0-based arrays. Oh yeah ... it also
allows writing almost anywhere in memory. :)