On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:10 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31/03/2014 8:44 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:58:46 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>>
>> Of all the languages which I have personally used. I loved Borland's
>>> Delphi
>>> (loosely base on Modula II) the best.
>>>
>> I was absolutely blown away when I first saw Delphi - not so much with
>> the language itself, but that IDE !!! What an eye opener.
>> I see a couple of versions still with doco in the bookcase in the (home)
>> office - next to the CD of battle-chess. Ahhh, thems was the days ... :0)
>> Now every time you turn around there's another language to look into.
>> Lua, now what did I do with that lua ...
>>
>
> You will pleased to know that Lua on z will be coming this year
> (compliments from my employers) with lots of goodies and execution speed
> that can show Java a clean pair of heels in 8 out of 10 benchtests that run
> sub-second.
>
I hate to have to ask, but will it have a cost, or be freely licensed? This
place won't spend money. Even to save money. Especially on the z.
> It's small, it's fast and it's dead easy to learn! I will pencil you in as
> an alpha tester Shane!
>
> How about this for iterating a 500 cylinder QSAM file in < 1 cpusec?
>
> local f, msg = io.open(arg 1 , "rb, type=record, noseek")
> if not f then error(msg) end
> repeat
> local rec = f:read("*r")
> until not rec
>
>
>
>
>> Shane .
>>
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