Re: BETWEEN

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Jerry Avins <jya@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Ed wrote:
> 
>>    ...
> 
>>> I don't know who originally coded  WITHIN  but if one
>>> looks at the machine-code - it's the shortest, fastest code
>>> you'll find to do a range test.  Hardly any instructions
>>> and no branches.
> 
>> C.M.; who else?
> 
> I think it might actually have been Dean Sanderson.  Dean was the
> principal architect of microFORTH (the immediate ancestor of
> fig-FORTH), and some of the constructs that people assume were Chuck
> Mooore's were actually Dean's.  I wasn't there at the time, but
> Elizabeth was, and can perhaps remember more.

Sorry, I do not remember, but it was a long time ago.  And I do know it 
was done with full consciousness of its nature and purpose, because they 
used to explain it to folks that way.

Cheers
Elizabeth

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