On Friday, 15 January 1999,
     DAVID NOON wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about PL/I, APL and Everything

 DN> Hi Ivan,

IT>>  Heh :) I've already seen COBOL... and it isn't all that bad!


 DN> You want to try writing it some time.

  That's why I was ducking... ;)

IT>> I have this notion (more of a feeling actually) that C is most suited
IT>> for fast performance on todays hardware, but I can't be sure. Feel free
IT>> to prove me wrong.

 DN> One word: assembler.

 DN> It might be a little slow to write, but if you can write it well,
 DN> it doesn't half run like stink.

  Oh, I know, I was talking about high-level languages only. Sorry I
  didn't make that clear...

  I still "fall-back" to assembler when there are some critical
  procedures to write, but I only use it in combination with some other
  high level language, mostly C... I never wrote a whole program in
  assembler (except some small educational ones, with no real function)

                                                            - Ivan -

.!. Actually it is an interplanetary greeting.
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