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From: silver@cup.portal.com (Jim B Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Let's give Stephen reasons for working in high-level langua
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Date: 29 Jun 89 22:29:42 GMT
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 jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
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>In article <19917@cup.portal.com> stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem>
>In reference to an IFF library written in C:
>> C? why not ASM?....

	various anti-assembly comments deleted
>
>
>Opinion 1: Any program that touts being written in 100% assembly language
>	should be dismissed as being trivial or the product of an
>	immature (inexperienced) programmer.


  This is really ripe.  This translates, at least to me, that anyone
who would be "dumb enough" to write a program completely in assembly
is an immature programmer.  I'm sure you wouldn't call Mark Riley an
immature programmer, but he programs mainly in assembly. Sonix is
a good example of his work.   Hardly the type of program an inexperienced
programmer would write.  
 
 Not to start an ASM vs C war and waste bandwidth, but your hypothesis
that people that like assembly are people who cant afford C compilers
doesnt hold much water.  I can afford both, in fact own both, and
prefer assembly.

Direct flames to dev.null.