29 Aug
2016
29 Aug
'16
3:54 a.m.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Larry McVoy wrote:
I'm with Marc. I think the C syntax is really
pleasant, and while I enjoyed
writing PDP-11 assembler (by far my favorite out the ones I've done which
include VAX, m68k, 32032, z80, sparc, some x86 but not much), I don't want
go back to writing assembler unless I have to. C is a pleasant language
that easily compiles to assembler.
Yeah, C's a really nice language. About as high as Pascal and at the same
time almost as low as ASM.
It's just a pity it's a horrible fit on the 6502 (my usual CPU of choice).
-uso.