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Date:Mon Jul 12 10:25:14 1993 
Subject:Bugs, Death and everything 
From:scottw (Scott Wheeler) 
Volume-ID:930712.03 

I've been drawing a similar amount of flak at the European C++
conference for saying I prefer assembler on the bare metal for getting
things working reliably (as compared with HLLs in general, not just
C++). My own view is that most custom code will never be ported (so
why worry about portability) and doesn't require more than the
simplest malloc-type memory allocation for buffers and the like.
Maintainability: stuff in C or Fortran is more maintainable because
the language is more familiar than assembler to an average programmer
- but Pop has the same problem.

I have a vision of a movement of like-minded ascetics in an exodus
from the Egypt of HLLs (where they were forced to make objects without
straw [admittedly easier than with]) to the promised land of bare
machines and fast assemblers (did you know there is at least one good
OO assembler under DOS)?

Scott (ducking for cover, after resisting temptation to send this out
under Jonathan Cunninghams id)