Re: WriteNow 3.0 and assembly language

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From: Eric Smith
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:01

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tbeaubie@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Todd Beaubien) writes:

>I keep telling them, "Why would I want to program in C? If I wanted
>to do assembly language, I'd just do assembly language!"

Which just shows how much you don't know about real-world programming.
Applications written in C are PORTABLE. Try taking the assembly language
program you wrote for a 68030 machine and getting it to run on some
other architecture. I guess that's something T/Maker can look forward to
with the PowerPC.

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