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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:04:31 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> The need to speed up BASIC was why I learnt Assembler...
> 
> Then I moved onto C, and that was the best of both worlds really

I pretty much started with assembler and moved on to C. 

Assembler served me well. When I went with the company that wanted a 
faster BASIC they handed me a stack of greenbar with the disassembly of 
what they were using.  "Smells like a Trash-80 ROM" I thought to myself. 
Disassembled code isn't that great but once you get the feel for it you 
can figure out what's going on. It's actually much easier than making 
sense of f2c output.