#: 5789 S15/Hot Topics
    03-Aug-90  08:53:41
Sb: #5762-OSK - passwords?
Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
To: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335 (X)

Re: high level vs. low level .....

You sound a lot like I did shortly after my conversion from assembler to C.  At
the time I was writing on a LI machine so there was some basis for the
speed/space argument.  I even rewrote the MW library in assembler to get speed
up and size down.  It made a very big difference in printf.  One day I
discovered that stream I/O is generally much faster than write[ln] (due to the
buffering).  I gradually gave up swimming upstream and opted for the easier to
use and faster high level I/O.  But it is nice to see that the religious fervor
and enthusiasm of youth still exists.  Sometimes it is fun to do it your own
way just because you want to.

Carl