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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
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Subject: Re: Assembly or ....
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cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>All of mankind does not know enough to produce a good language, or to 
>produce a good implementation of a language.  There are more operations
>appropriate to hardware than are dreamed of in all computer scientists'
>philosophies.

What might be more to the point is that there is no single language that is
perfect for every application.  The right tool for the job, they always say.

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