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From: Peter Hermann <h@h.de>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:26:30 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.ada J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet@cox.net> wrote:
> working with assembler but in my day it was a 1:1 correspondence--you 
> knew exactly what binary each assembly language instruction would emit, 

in the zenith of Assembler (-: i.e. after your time :-)
we had macros which could produce hundreds of 
statements with one stroke...