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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Language Wars
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Date: 28 May 91 00:24:59 GMT
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In article <14750@ucrmath.ucr.edu> trout@ucrmath.ucr.edu (michael griffith) writes:

   This theory only holds if you are a screw-up.  Assembly is much faster
   and smaller than anything a complier or interpreter could ever write.

Is this written in stone somewhere?  How much faster is assembly
machine language than C given that you have a good machine language
programmer(is this a must?)?

   HLLs, on the other hand, provide abstraction, ease of programming, and
   portablility.  There really is a decision that needs to be made before

If assembler is so great, why don't we just stick with the 68K series
forever?  Moto. will surely oblige us.

   you start any project.  That decision is a choice of a language.  Don't
   be lulled into thinking that a language is an automatic one -- it isn't.

   ALWAYS use the language that is right for the job.

ALWAYS take your vitamins and get plenty of sleep.  Get real.  I'll
name the language and you name the "right" job.

C
Ada
C++
Eiffel
Smalltalk
Icon
Perl
Rexx
Lisp (CL, Scheme, etc.)
Prolog
Objective C
Self
AWK(nawk)
Snobol
APL
Cobol
Fortran
Assembler -- 68K, 80x86, 6502, SPARC, MIPS, 88K...
Simula

There are dozens more.  I have a list with probably a hundred
languages(wouldn't be surprised if it's more like a few hundred).

   "My computer is better than your computer."  -- Amiga and NeXT junkies.

But it is :-).  I say: "ALWAYS use the right computer for the job."
:-) I'm under the impression that you will do anything to avoid an
argument.  Sorry pal, if you read the net, you are required to think a
little.

-Mike