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In <CEDMAN.90Nov14193209@lynx.ps.uci.edu> cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:

>In article <90318.162021DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

> In article <7039@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da
> Silva) says:

> >In article <1990Nov14.034507.19784@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu
> >(Phil
> >Dietz) writes:
> >> Hmmmph....with the discussion of wild cards, people have been coming
> >> out of the cracks and harassing ARP.  Boy if my memory works right (256
> >> bit of course), when ARP came out, it was the hottest thing to use.

> >Not me, dude. I've been harassing ARP since the beginning.

> >(a) It's all in assembler. That's a big no-no for me.
> >(b) They never got it all together. It was missing major programs (like copy)
> >    and the programs that did come out tended to have weird bugs (um, non
> >    standard features if you like).

> >I'm sure (b) was due to (a).

>Assembler is a minus ? What are you getting at ? Assembler programming
>certainly is the best and most taxing way of programming for programmers.

Agreement.

>It produces invariably the smallest and fastest code for users. Maybe
>programmers who don't write in assembler can be forgiven for their
>by their users if they:

>        a) use C and the fastest C-compilers on the market

Disagreement.

>        b) are aware that they are sacrifying the quality of the programm
>        and the convinience of the user against their laziness and
>        development time.

Agreement.

>And now using assembler is a "big no-no" ? What is the world coming to ?
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C has only one good use for real programmers, and that is that it is portable.
If you want to do some proper coding without being lazy then assembly is the 
only choice. Amiga's LHArc was originally in C. Wasn't that a fast program?
Of course, ARP was a big advancement in programming in DOS, especially
the tracking functions, because now you can LAZY and not close
anything or free memory, just like C. Wow. So all you lowclass programmers who 
can only program in one language(especially if you can only code in C) stop
posting this rubbish to amiga.tech. If you have to post it post it to 
alt.garbage.dump
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