Forth claimed to be 5 times faster than BASIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace Everyone went to assembly if th

Forth claimed to be 5 times faster than BASIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace Everyone went to assembly if they wanted speed. I think Forth requires more thinking than BASIC (at least, of a mathematically flexible kind).