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From: cas@mtuxo.UUCP (C.STEVENS)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Assembly Language
Message-ID: <451@mtuxo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Aug-87 12:51:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  9 12:51:49 1987
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Summary: Bull?

Well, in my opinion (worth what it costs) a language is made complex
and hard to follow by the number of discrete statements it requires for
a task.  So a higher level language is easier to follow than assembler
because it takes fewer statements. 

The simplest (and least flexible) language would just have 1 statement!
You either did what the statement allowed or dropped back 10 yards and punted!
And that statement might compile to 10k of machine code!  But we trade
simplicity for flexibility.

And, assembler isn't any bigger that HLL, but it might be harder to debug
because it would take me 2-10 X (never measured difference) as much code 
to do the same tasks in HLL and assembler.  But the code is
2-10 X (never measured difference) smaller (per line)!

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