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From: SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i)
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Subject: Re: Re: fast code and no morals
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Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 20:17:48 EST
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> In article <651@brl-smoke.ARPA> ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
> >>> So what?  This can be written "structured" ...
> >> Sure is recommended if you are optimizing for speed
> >If you are going to blast away at all the good features of a high level
> >language for the sake of speed, why don't you just program in assembler?
> 
> Assembler isn't portable, C is.
> 
> Since C is not sensitive to newlines that often, additional comments
> could be added.

"C" is as portable as Stonehedge!!  At least assembler languages don't
pretend to be portable.  You know that there is work to go from system to
system.  The "security" of porting with "C" is the killer - the insidious
differences between implementations can kill you because you don't expect
them and can't plan well for them.