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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Assembly language (was: Re: Another 1.3 wish.)
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 13:01:50 EDT
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Another reason to avoid assembler is that instruction sets are
(rightly) becoming less user-friendly: it is expected that only
compilers (and compiler writers) will use them directly.