Re: Thoughts on the C/Assembly Debate



On Jul 28, 11:18 am, Randy Yates <ya...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
...

There's a debate?

One is one thing, the other is another thing. Don't try to compare
apples and oranges and you'll find you have a lot more spare time.


Also note that requiring the programmer to know the processor architecture
defeats, at least in part, the point of a high-level-language since time
is spent learning things that ideally would be handled by the compiler.

Yes, that's the case against assembler...


Note that this is absolutely irrefutable. ...

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