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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Assembly or ....
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Date: 29 Nov 88 21:28:58 GMT
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And of course, what nobody else has said,...
It's difficult to write a compiler without knowing assembler.
SOMEBODY has to know the machine language somewhere.