Steve,

Agree, I learned Assembler first then self-taught in C ...
Only played with Java, I actually like python...

Scott

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 4:06 PM Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I entirely agree.  The syntax for mapping C variables to in-line assembler
> code is hideous and error-prone (at least for me).  Conversely, the linkage
> for an assembler subroutine is very standard.  That's the way to go if the
> code requires more than a couple of variables.
>
> sas
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 7:08 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > ...
>
>
>
> > I still maintain that some code
> > is still better written in assembler. I'm a C/C++ programmer these days
> > but for some subroutines an assembler program is much easier to
> > understand then lots of inlined  __asm() blocks.
>
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