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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use C/C++/OOP?
Date: 12 Dec 94 11:39:18
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In article <3ccc2h$756@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

  > People are actually writing NEW 370 assembly language programs for
  > the PC!

  This is the most masochistic thing I've heard of all week!  (But
the week is still young yet... ;-)  As far as I am concerned, 360
assembler makes 8086 assembler look like a great leap forward.  The
360 does have a general register set, but the "normal" addressing
modes are a nightmare.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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