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In article <JcudnfvVm6rnFwHSnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>On 4/28/2012 7:27 PM, Howard S Shubs wrote:
>> In article<jnfi66$fsr$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>   David Froble<davef at tsoft-inc.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I know I'm biased, and so is everyone else in favor of what they're used to,
>>> but I find
>>> Basic to be more understandable than anything else, most likely because
>>> English is my only
>>> language.
>>
>> Nonono, BASIC is just wrong.  Kinda like using Pascal for anything
>> serious.  Fortran is where it's at.
>>
>
>No!!!!!!!  Real men code in Macro-32!  Sometimes it's necessary.
>Once upon a time you had to write device drivers in Macro-32.
>Some years later it became possible to write a driver in C.  To write
>a successful driver in either language requires that you know how the 
>device works.

You could/can write drivers using Bliss and without all the escapes to
specialized setup routines as is needed for C.



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