Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!gatech!udel!new From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Assembly or .... Message-ID: <5735@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 88 21:28:58 GMT References: <1388@aucs.UUCP> <729@convex.UUCP> <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <8993@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1032@l.cc.purdue.edu> <21390@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: new@udel.EDU (Darren New) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 4 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.