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Tom, The news is that C is _already_ much more proliferant than assembly because it's much easier to understand, and you get to do less work for the same result. The compiler does all the dirty work for you and looks after such things as registers and segments. Some compilers do this much better than others… Things that take lots of time in assembly are a snap in C. As for large programs, the same applies. Pascal is great for structured programming but when you need to do "fiddly" things, C is definitely the language of choice. C allows easy integration of modules (whether written in C or another language) to produce a large application. You write each module which handles only specific tasks, then write more modules to connect them all together. Here's an example: GADGETS is my screen handler library. It uses several modules: GWINDOWS, GBOXES, GHELP… etc. Each of these modules performs specific tasks, all to do with drawing boxes on the screen, saving the data underneath and putting meaningful text inside the boxes. GADGETS connects them all together and, in doing so, provides a consistent user interface to the program underneath, including menus and data input boxes. Each of these modules are made up of seperate source files, which result in seperate .OBJ files, which are simply linked into your program. Access to the functions in each .OBJ file is via header files. What could be simpler than that? Cheers, Bert.