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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> I should resist the temptation but... the same argument can be
> made for perl, FORTRAN and assembly language programming ;-)

And correctly so. "It is a poof craftsman who blames his tools."
I wish he was still around here, because I think Robert Dewar is
a prime exemplar of this philosophy, having written a fine COBOL
compiler in COBOL, just for example. And as he also said, writing
in assembly language, along with a data structure designed to take
advantage of the particulars of the instruction set, gives you a
program which can run rings around anything you can do in a higher
level language.