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>>"… all the bugs are YOURS!" > >..unless, of course, there's a bug in the assembler. 🙂 I've met many of them. Make that 🙂 a 🙁 >>"Isn't it LOGICAL to speak the language of the computer instead of learning >>another language that is ultimately translated to machine language anyway?" > >Not necessarily. For example, I can program in Java, and it works cross >platform immediately. It works on my Solaris SPARCstation, and it runs on >Windows 95. Two completely different architectures, no recompile of the Java >code I wrote. Agreed. Assembler is no panacea, and this is just one of a plethora of reasons why. (Note: this does not imply a HLL is a panacea either). >There are some cases where it makes sense to program in assembler, there are >many more where it does not. I'd prefer to s/many more/others/. Those goals, needs, costs, and compromises never go away!