Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Microsoft Assembler Complaints Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 07:09:58 GMT References: <9078@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Nov20.141330.13358@polyof.poly.edu> <9109@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <59413@microsoft.UUCP> <9385@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: c164-bd@katerina.uucp's message of 1 Dec 90 11:33:40 GMT In article <9385@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c164-bd@katerina.uucp (John D. Mitchell) writes: [re new version of MASM] Oh yeah, any word about whether they are finally going to write the assembler in assembly language (instead of C)? Should it make any difference ? The fact that it's slow doesn't have very much to do with what language it's done in. You can make assembler slower than molasses in frozen-over hell. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */