> wouter van ooijen wrote:
>
> >> One area which sometimes needs to be included in the equation is the
> >> ability to do crucially time bound things within crucial time. This may
> >> relate to code length but may be more complex than sheer size. While
> >> often enough HLL will do well enough here too, when speed or other
> >> crucial and complex inter-relationships matter assembler often has the
> >> edge.

Exact timing asm has an edge because there isn't syntax in most HLL's
to express timing constraints. There is a lot of emphasis in PLC languages
on timing however most of it isn't the fine grained timing that can be
accomplished accounting for asm instruction timing.

Walter Banks
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