[ale] why not asm

[Vernard Martin]

On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 23:04, Stephen Turner wrote:
> why dont people use asembly more often? supposedly its
> about as easy to code asembly as it is c, supposedly
> the processors have different coding for asm but cant
> they agree and or os just be slightly coded
> differently for diff procs?

The reason most folks program in a higher level language is that in
general, programmers on average, write the same number of lines of code 
per day regardless of what language they are using. High level languages
let you get more work done per line of code since you can rely on the
compiler doing a lot of work for you. Not to mention things like
libraries and things like that. However, the tradeoff is usually that
code written in native assembly is much faster. But the tradeoff between
speed and ease of coding is well worth it in most cases.

just another piece of info for you

V

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