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From: jcl@hpausla.HP.COM (Jeff Laing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Lightspeed Fortran ???????
Message-ID: <2580004@hpausla.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 02:34:55 GMT
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Rich wrote
>	I can't comment on future plans, and I really don't know what's planned
> with respect to future language products.

Might we see a LightspeedAsm? Imaging being able to write those assembler
routines in REAL assembler, rather than asm{} with its peculiarities.
Actually, I am amazed at the number of people I know who use LightspeedC
as their ASSEMBLER of choice....

>	- can it be done?

Could it be hard to do better than MDS?   MPW, I haven't seen, but I know
it has a steeper learning curve than Lightspeed C and so I doubt I will ever
worry about MPW-C (I bought MPW with TML Pascal-II; the price was right)

>	- is the market large enough to make it worthwhile?

Dunno.  You could write me down as one though.   8-)