On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
As for Pd vs. C, there was a time in the not-so-distant past where programmers thought that compilers were horribly inefficient, and that they were only really good for prototyping things. Then you'd code things for real in assembly. That lasted well into the 80's.
It even lasted well into the 90's, but it depends for what. The 80's had plenty ofy apps use a blend of asm and C-or-Pascal, while in the 90's it became limited to really needy applications (games, demoscene, etc). The amount of asm code still being written is shrinking but still somewhat present. For example, devel_0_39 has asm code in it.
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