From: schornak@nospicedham.web.de   
      
   Rick C. Hodgin wrote:   
      
      
   > My question is:  Don't you think things like this are far better   
   > handled in a higher level language like C, and that assembly should   
   > be used for only those things where it really matters?   
      
      
   If you prefer slow and bloated code, you are free to use C,   
   C++, Java or other high level languages and scripts. If you   
   want to keep control without *redundant* abstraction layers   
   between hardware and code, there's no other way than to use   
   assembler to communicate with hardware the straight way.   
      
   Actually, coding a function in assembler is not much harder   
   than to code it in C, and it doesn't take much more time to   
   write that code. The only difference is code size, density,   
   higher speed and *much* easier debugging and maintenance of   
   assembler code (you don't have to figure out which lines of   
   assembler code are the equivalent of which line of C code).   
      
      
   Greetings from Augsburg   
      
   Bernhard Schornak   
      
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