Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes

["Al Mole" <almole@nearlyware.com>]

"Jano" <402450@cepsz.unizar.es> wrote in message
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> I'm pretty sure many of us know Steven Gibson. Today I've tested a
> freeware from him. In the instructions page he made these statements:
>
> "All of my programs are so small and so fast because I write only in the
> one, true, computer language: Assembly Language. All other languages
> reduce to assembly language, but they lose a lot in the translation.
> (Judge for yourself.)"
>
> "People who can't program in assembly language (just about everyone) get
> really annoyed with me when I talk about how much better it is than their
> pet language. But it's not my fault if they just say they care about
> quality."
>
> My blood is boiling. I want only to share to cool me a little down.

It's a long time since I did any but yes, I 'll go along with Steve Gibson.
It's not practical for most situations but a programmer that can't do it is
a programmer not worth having on your team.

A friend had a job recoding Ada modules into assembler for EFA quite a few
years ago. Shows the value of Ada as an HDL as well as the shortcomings of
any high level language when it comes to performance.