Hi,

> You say assembler and C are in different classes -- I say they aren't. For
> the tasks we do (I just assume I know enough about your projects to be 
> able
> to say this, but I know I may be wrong), you can find some good engineers
> who would choose C and create good solutions, and you can find some good
> engineers who would choose assembler and create good solutions. So they 
> are
> not in different classes; they are in the same class.

    You are forgetting one thing that is essential ! Assembler is not really 
a "language" as it's own name imply, it is not a compiler neither a 
interpreter. It is just a tool for easier writing of machine language 
instructions. The choices there are more hardware than software choices, 
specially in the 60's and 70's :-) It is like comparing apples and oranges !


Best regards,
Alexandre Guimaraes

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