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    11-Feb-92 18:49:02
Sb: #20185-#languages
Fm: Shraddhan 70374,754
To: John Toebes/SYSOP 70007,3467
The more I hear about C, the better it seems to be – at least for large jobs. But are you really saying that 'uninitialised variables … can be caught before you go through any of the compile steps'. Is the compiler so clever that it can follow the logic of a program well enough to actually do this? Whether this is what you meant or not, it seems that I'd better get hold of a copy of SAS/C and have a good look at it. I have quite a large project that seems to have ground to a halt, partly because I hit a problem which took me months (and a bit of luck) to solve. If I decide to switch to using C, I will need to be able to include the bulk of the existing ASM code. Is it easy to do this and to call C routines from ASM?