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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Let's give Stephen reasons for working in high-level languages
Message-ID: <406@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 89 17:13:15 GMT
References: <8907012244.AA21748@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <8907012244.AA21748@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>their heads for them to 'upgrade' but these fall into the 'personal'
>category and you had better know the guy you are talking about well if you
>intend to argue it.

Good point!

>	Yet, there are still many cases where I wouldn't dream of writing in
>C.  Most of the firmware software I've written (mainly for Motorola single
>chip microcomputers like the 68HC11 and 68705) is written in 68HC11 and
>68705 and NOT in C even though C compilers are apparently available for these
>8 bits processors.

Yes; certainly there are times when using assembler makes sense.

I find it interesting that Sun is now using Forth in their firmware in
their newest machines. Perhaps we're going in the direction of multiple
language use in general. There's a lot to be said for this approach;
all languages have their strong and their weak points.
	Doug
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