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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Programming in Assembly
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Date: 10 Feb 91 21:29:49 GMT
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>        Don't know if I agree with that.  Merlin 16+ is definitely
>| Steve Chiang      Apple //gs Forever!         | Coming Soon:  |

The free assembler in every Apple II is certainly the only one I know of. I
prefer Orca because it has a growth path. As far as I know there is no Merlin
C or Merlin Pascal. Orca is the APW shell and gives you access to all the
nifty APW utilities. It intigrates the development quite well and is
transparent for compiling any language's source code. I am going on the
assumption that most people will move up from assembler in the future and this
is the main benefit of Orca over Merlin. 

The largest program I have ever written in Assembler is 16k. On a 64k Apple II
this is a reasonable size, on a GS it is a CDA. For large projects a HLL is
required if there is any kind of time limit on development.

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