Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!uflorida!kluge!serss0.fiu.edu From: acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: programming in assembly faster than HLL Message-ID: <3579@kluge.fiu.edu> Date: 16 May 91 05:53:05 GMT Sender: news@kluge.fiu.edu Organization: Florida International University, Miami Lines: 10 for those of you claiming that *you* can program in assembly faster than in *any* HLL, remember that BASIC is also an HLL. given the *same* libraries as BASIC, does your proposition still hold? (personally i don't believe anyone who says their faster in assembly for the simple fact that HLL was created by assembly programmers ... chicken/egg thing doesn't apply here). albert note: i love assembly. i wouldn't program a IIgs app in anything but assembly.