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From: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Using C as an aid to hand writi
Message-ID: <242@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 20:11:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 20:11:32 1986
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <3700003@uiucdcsp> johnson@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
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>I consider designing assembler code using a high-level language to be
>"motherhood".  I have always done it that way (since I wrote my first
>big assembly program in 1976), I thought most "modern" programmers did
>it that way, and I teach all my students to do it that way.  Am I
>hopelessly naive?

Not at all.  I like to write my code first in Prolog, then translate
it into something low level like C.  The high level code makes good
comments for the low level stuff.