Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c++:2133 comp.lang.c:14397 comp.lang.forth:679 comp.lang.fortran:1548 comp.lang.misc:2215 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!zen!frank From: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Assembly or .... Summary: Bang -> limp Message-ID: <1434@zen.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 10:15:05 GMT References: <1388@aucs.UUCP> <729@convex.UUCP> <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <6529@june.cs.washington.edu> <1988@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Reply-To: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England Lines: 28 In article <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes: >I don't agree that there is ever any necessity to code in assembler. We >have languages that produce code just as good as hand crafted assembler >(such as C), so why not use them for this sort of thing. Then ... In article <1988@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes: >In article <6529@june.cs.washington.edu> kolding@uw-june.UUCP >(Eric Koldinger) writes: >>Ah, but wouldn't that be nice. Optimizing compilers that could generate >>code as good as we can generate by hand in all cases. Let me know when >>someone writes one. > >Ah, but wouldn't it be nice. People that could write code as good >as optimising compilers can in all cases. Let me know when one is >born. > >Optimisers are good at some things, people are good at others. Which means that, if you always want good work done, you'd better use people for some of it. [Sound of foot being shot in background.] -- Frank Wales, Software Consultant, [frank@zen.co.uk<->mcvax!zen.co.uk!frank] Zengrange Ltd., Greenfield Rd., Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x217