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On 08/09/2024 20:13, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> 
> Well, I had 48KB ZX Spectrum.  On it I could run Hisoft Pascal,
> Hisoft C, FIG-Forth and other things.  At that time I had some
> knowledge of C but really did not understand it.  Hisoft C gave
> me similar speed to Hisoft Pascal, had less features (C lacked
> floating point) and needed more memory.  FIG-Forth needed very
> little memory but execution speed was significantly worse than
> Pascal.  And my programs were small.  Some my programs needed
> enough momory for data, but one could write a compiled progam
> to the tape and run it from the tape.  So I mostly used Pascal.
> But that could be different with less memory (compiler would
> not run on 16kB Spectrum, FIG-Forth would be happy on it) or
> with bigger programs.
> 

That's bringing back memories - I too had these languages for my 
Spectrum.  IIRC FIG-Forth had an editor that had almost illegible 
half-width characters to get more characters per line.

But if you think Forth was slow on the Spectrum, you probably never 
tried Snail Logo :-)

While I tried these languages a bit on the Spectrum, I did more BASIC 
and assembly programming.  The BBC Micro had a much better BASIC and an 
integrated assembler, so I used that when I could.