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From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: frustration, frustration..
Message-ID: <1362@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 14:34:12 GMT
References: <2166@crash.cts.com> <4794@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Summary: assembler is not so bad

In article <4794@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <2166@crash.cts.com> steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes:
>>Is there anyone out there that programs in assembly on the Amiga
>...

I do.

>...
>cooked up his own version of the stdio library for assembly.  The reason C
>programming is so 'easy' to us is that a lot of the grunt work has been done
>for us.  The startup code, the library interfaces, the I/O libraries, etc.
>have all been written by the compiler vendors and provided to us.  Thus,
>it's trivial for us to open a file, parse our arguments, call the Amiga OS,
>etc.
>...

This exagerates the difficulties of programming in assembler.  AmigaDos
and the ROM routines provide high-level interfaces to the system.  It's
trivial to open or close a file in an assembler program.  It's not
trivial to parse arguments, but it's not hard.  C programs  go through
a lot of wasted motion, mainly.  For someone with just a single
floppy, like me, all the overhead in using C would be difficult
to put up with.  Also, C-compilers cost too much.

Greg Lee
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