At 17:21 -0500 on 04/07/11, Kirk Wolf wrote about Re: ASM vs HLL (Was: CPU: ASSM vs ENTERPRISE COBOL - SOLVED:
Lets have a more real world discussion - Lets say that you have an HLASM and a C programmer of equal experience who are independently building the same system and they need a good balanced binary tree data structure. The C programmer could use one of several open source or public domain implementations written in C, compile it in Metal-C and be using well-tested, optimized code 15 minutes later. The assembler programmer grabs his Knuth book....
Or he digs into his tool box and pulls out a subroutine to do it (ie: The equivalent of your OS/PD implementation). If the C Programmer is allowed to cheat by using a pre-existent and debugged set of code (in lieu of creating it from scratch), so can the Assembler Programmer. Remember you say experienced with means that the Assembler Programmer has code that can be reused/recycled.
