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From: kolding@june.cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Assembly or ....
Message-ID: <6529@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 88 19:17:48 GMT
References: <1388@aucs.UUCP> <729@convex.UUCP> <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: kolding@uw-june.UUCP (Eric Koldinger)
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In article <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes:
>I don't agree that there is ever any necessity to code in assembler. We
>have languages that produce code just as good as hand crafted assembler
>(such as C), so why not use them for this sort of thing.

Ah, but wouldn't that be nice.  Optimizing compilers that could generate
code as good as we can generate by hand in all cases.  Let me know when
someone writes one.

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