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From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: CDA GS/OS file format
Message-ID: <1547@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 90 06:01:27 GMT
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Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
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bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
 [I nuked Matt's article entirely...]

>It seems that with systems that use extensive tool box calls Assembler
>would be the way to go. For instance, when programming the Mac so many
>of the actions are so system dependent that portability becomes somewhat
>moot anyway.

	Uh, there are a few other issues at stake than portability... For
example, I'm re-writing a program that was originally written in 100%
assembly. It took roughly a month for the previous author to do it, and wasn't
very flexible. I'm re-writing it in C, I've got about 70% of it done, I've
only been working on it for about 5 days, and it's a _lot_ more flexible (and
it's not slower, either). This isn't because I'm such a great programmer, it's
just because of the relative flexability of C vs. assembly...

>bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu

	(Before anyone flames me: I like assembly. It's great. It's fast. It
has it's place.)
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