From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>Ok granted C is known for being one of the faster languages but with todays
>cpu's I would think compiled basic would be fine even for a DVD viewer
>program. Back in the NT 3.1 days when people were running 32mb 486 systems I
>can see the point but with todays computers? I could write a compiled basic
>program that could outrun any disk system or IO ports.

Even REXX will do that nowadays, the I/O subroutines are acceptably fast. I
have written quite a few data handling programs that are I/O bound and
handle filtes of hundreds of megabytes. And for Web stuff, it's more than
fast enough - I have a binary news sucker written in C, and another I wrote
in REXX, and they are within a few percent of each other. They are purely
network bound, on a 2Mb link.

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