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From: Tim Rentsch
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Subject: Re: Threads across programming languages
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:34:48 -0700
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Paavo Helde writes:
> On 15.05.2024 03:31, wij wrote:
[...]
>> Assembly has its bads, but considering the fact that writting
>> assembly is basically the same as writting high level language
>> except the compilation is done by human instead of automated by
>> the compilation tools. [...]
Not so. It is well documented, and has been for something like
fifty years, that writing code in a high-level language is about
five times as productive as writing in assembly. There are very
few programs that need even one percent of the code written in
assembly.
> To be honest, I am a bit baffled we are having this kind of
> conversation so far into the 21-st century.
You are a master of understatement.