CompuServe Messages

Chris, I reiterate… there is, and can be no "winner". All languages have their place. This is fairly evident if you stop to think that _someone_ wrote the language, and in doing so, wrote it to translate his own thoughts to machine code. If it does that for him and nobody else, then it will not make it as a general language. The fact that there are choices just goes to prove that all programmers do not think alike, nor are all programming environments alike. It pains me to have to try to translate C to assembler to find out what the program is _really_ doing, and it also pains me to see bloated code produced by C and other HLLs, but really, when you think about it, this machine might still have been on the drawing board if it weren't for HLLs. All people like you and I can do is to show what can be done with assembler, and hope that the showing will cause more programmers to write in it. Regards, Larry.