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I worked for a fire alarm manufacturer in the late 1980's, at a time when you absolutely had to fit 10 lbs of code+data into a 5 lb E2PROM.

The project leads chose to implement an extraordinarily tiny, elegant, and fast, FORTH kernel/interpreter and made the rest of us do the main implementation using that mind warping stack-based RPN.

We all balked and bitched and chewed our fingernails, but in the final analysis, we would not have been able to fit everything in that had to be there.

Now, the kernel was elegant, tiny, and fast in and of itself. But overall, the performance of the system as a whole sucked.

Coming from the lab was a constant, "c'mon baby! c'mon baby! c'mon baby! YEAH!!!" It was like standing outside the fence listening to an orgasm festival. Wink | ;)
Cheers,
Mike Fidler

"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright

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