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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Compiler Costs
Message-ID: <1845@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 05:40:39 GMT
References: <1797@apctrc.UUCP> <1565@uvm-gen.UUCP> <1990Jul8.183551.13891@nlm.nih.gov> <2617@igloo.scum.com>
Reply-To: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
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In article <2617@igloo.scum.com> nevin@igloo.scum.com (Nevin Liber) writes:

-There are two ways of programming in C:
-	(1) writing high-level portable code
-	(2) using it as a macro-assembler
-Unfortunately, it is darn near impossible to write code which satisfies
-both of these goals!

True.  However:

-And from a maintenance standpoint, assembler
-itself is better than C for goal #2.

Some people at Bell Labs felt exactly the opposite of the way you feel.
Because of their feelings, they invented C.

-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
This is me speaking.  If you want to hear the company speak, you need DECtalk.