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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: This week's program
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Date: 27 Jun 91 00:41:20 GMT
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>> >This week's program will copy a file that has a bad sector(s) somewhere in the
>> 
>> >100% assembly
>> 
>> 	^ Oh.  In that case, I will not use it.

>  By all means,   PLEASE DON'T!  :^)

>  I guess I just don't understand that line of thinking......

Don't get me wrong - there is nothing wrong with assembly - I use it often - but
I just don't think it is the "language-of-choice" for writing I/O programs in.
Too scary for me.  I don't care if a game crashes and deletes the high-score
file.  Sure, it's a bummer, but it IS `just a game'.

Then again, I guess if you can't trust a DC program, what CAN you trust!  TOS? :-!

Warwick.


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