Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Language Wars Message-ID: <4006.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 28 May 91 07:06:13 GMT References: <1991May15.112823.22229@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May19.123429.19440@sugar.hackercorp.com> <14750@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <8_4Ha8!f@cs.psu.edu> Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 15 Quoted from <8_4Ha8!f@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > If assembler is so great, why don't we just stick with the 68K series > forever? Moto. will surely oblige us. You think we use C because we want to be ready for a CPU change? You think C is automatically going to provide some sort of readiness for such things? The assembler folks will switch over easily enough. Look how many are supposed to be ex-C= 64, for example. > -Mike -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo. ***