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From: andyt@kontron.UUCP (Andy Thornton)
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Subject: Hi-Ho Hobby-Horse AWAY!! (RE: The Great Assembler Debate)
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 22:22:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 22:22:57 1986
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Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA
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*******all must pay homage to the line eater!

This is a "meta-response" regarding the assembler vs. hll debate, so
no summary is required.

C'mon people, the decision to use assembler or an hll should be a pure
ENGINEERING (i.e. get the right tools for the job ) decision.  Sometimes
this is made for you; I had to write a terminal program in assembler
because the total amount of memory availible was 512 BYTES.  I wrote
a word processor in PASCAL because I didn't want to stumble my
way through 100,000 lines of 6502 code looking for dumb mistakes.
Which was the wrong decision?  
In the "real" world everything is a trade-off between speed, compactness,
portability, and maintainability.  THESE should be the guidelines for the
decision of assembler vs. hll, rather than everyone mounting thier hobby-
horse and riding off into the sunset.
andty    voder,loral,pyramid!kontron!andyt
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