Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!walleye!tempest From: tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: <1990Nov05.123719.7237@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 5 Nov 90 12:37:19 GMT References: <2909@unccvax.uncc.edu> <90308.005234KJSTEELE@MTUS5.BITNET> <1990Nov5.095930.27753@cs.umu.se> Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Reply-To: tempest@walleye.UUCP (Kenneth K.F. Lui) Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 27 In article <1990Nov5.095930.27753@cs.umu.se> dvlmfs@cs.umu.se (Michael Forselius) writes: >The ONLY way to go is assembler, why do you think the current systems are >slow huh? If 7.0 was to be written in assembler then it would be half the >size and twice the speed (if there are any REAL programmers still working for >Apple). And remember that no compiler NEVER generates code as efficient as >hand-optimized assembler. I guess that the release date of 7.0 is delayed >due to OOP... It's a nice concept but not the way to go. If System 7 is to be written in assembler, its release date would be pushed back even farther. I'd say that assembler is the only way to go in certain cases; but when you consider how large a project System 7 is, a high-level language would be more beneficial in terms of getting things to work right in the first place. "REAL" programmers do not do extra work if they don't need to--they spend that extra energy doing other projects. I used to think that assembler is the "real programmers'" language. I've changed my mind after I've worked with a group of people. It's not fun reading others' code--let alone stuff that they've done in assembler. So, I'm a whimp and program in a high-level language--I still look at assembler just to keep in shape. :-) Ken ______________________________________________________________________________ tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu, tempest@walleye.ecst.csuchico.edu,|Kenneth K.F. Lui| tempest@sutro.sfsu.edu, tempest@wet.UUCP |________________|