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echo: rberrypi
to: ANDY LEIGHTON
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2018-05-01 16:28:00
subject: Re: 64 bit OS

On 01/05/18 11:46, Andy Leighton wrote:
>> C sits nicely between  the overwight syntax and non portability of
>> assembler, and teh ineffeicient and unintelligent langeuages of computer
>> scientists, who instead of respecting the hardware upon which their code
>> nust run, as COBOL, FORTRAN and B/BCPL/C did, instead ignore it in their
>> search for symmetry elegance and presumably geek status, whils what they
>> have implemented rumbles along overblown and overweight and bug filled.
> Now you are trolling. I have written stuff in a number of assembly
> languages, and in C and wouldn't say anything close to that.


Well so have I, and I would.

Modern code is appalling.







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