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From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
Message-ID: <10621@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 06:28:40 GMT
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Ten years ago no one would think of writing an application in anything
other than assembly language.  Then we graduated a bunch of fools who
knew only "C" or Pascal.  That's when writing (egads!) games in "C"
became popular.  The real reason the Apple II has died is not because
no one wants to support it-- they *CAN'T* support it.  The only way to
make the 65xxx scream is to write in assembly language, which, I'm afraind
is a lost art.
*** Randy Hyde

BTW: I am doing something about this.  I got so fed up with the lack of
assembly language talent that I started teaching the subject at UC Riverside
and Cal Poly Pomona.