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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: assembly programming prefereable to HLL programming ?
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Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 14:27:26 EST
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Maybe the situation is different for a people who write widely-used
programs for PC's like Lotus, but in a reasearch environment, the
critical factor isn't speed of execution, but speed of development.
Why pay a programmer to spend twice as long to make the program more
efficient when you can spend a smaller amount buying a faster machine?
I know, this may not be the case very often yet, but the fact is that
the time has past when programmers existed for their machines.  Now the
machines exist for the programmers, and we'd better be paying more
attention to how we can make it easier for the programmer than for the
machine.

	Wayne