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Article #4452Re: assembly programming prefereable to HLL programming ?
From: Wayne A. Christopher
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1986 19:27
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1986 19:27
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Maybe the situation is different for a people who write widely-used programs for PC's like Lotus, but in a reasearch environment, the critical factor isn't speed of execution, but speed of development. Why pay a programmer to spend twice as long to make the program more efficient when you can spend a smaller amount buying a faster machine? I know, this may not be the case very often yet, but the fact is that the time has past when programmers existed for their machines. Now the machines exist for the programmers, and we'd better be paying more attention to how we can make it easier for the programmer than for the machine. Wayne
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: assembly programming prefereable to HLL programming ? Message-ID: <1156@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 14:27:26 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.1156 Posted: Fri Dec 5 14:27:26 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 21:30:44 EST References: <646@instable.UUCP> <476@atari.UUcp> Organization: CAD Group, U.C. Berkeley Lines: 12