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In article <#-vjns#.erics@netcom.com>, erics@netcom.com (Eric Smith) writes:
> 
> 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. 

Stranger things have happened.  Imagine these two programs both running on some
super-fast PowerPC...

a) Microsloth Word 6.00H (H because G bombed between PowerOpen 1.0 and PowerOpen
   1.0.1 (-: ) written in some Microsoft "creeping horror" (tm) HLL (M Code or one
   of its evil spawn)
b) WriteNow 4.1 written in highly optimised 680x0 code

Now WriteNow will have to run on an software *emulated* 680x0 and that means it
will not be quick.  But Word 6 was written by Microsloth and is going to be
*hideously* slow.  So I wouldn't want to say which one would be faster.

Quinn "The Eskimo!"   <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>  "Real Coke, Diet .sig"
Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
  -- Tongue firmly in cheek.
  -- Resisting the temptation to start a language war by replying to
       George <sukenick@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> obviously inflamatory comments (-: