> Both languages have their places, and there are also many
> situations where neither one is the best choice.
Long Live RPGII. :-)
Tony Thigpen
Gord Tomlin wrote on 01/22/2018 11:59 AM:
On 2018-01-22 10:44, Jon Perryman wrote:
I also commented that C is a weak language compared to HLASM and gave
some examples that force bad coding techniques (e.g. XML parser). A C
programmer took offence because he had written an efficient XML parser
in C.
Most programmers (whether C or Assembler) would not write their own XML
parser. They would call a pre-existing parser. FWIW, in the past, I've
done RYO parsing in both languages, and it was less work for me when I
did it in C.
I'm not here to defend C. It certainly has its warts. But just as it's
not good for C programmers to proclaim C to be better than Assembler in
each and every case, it's not good for Assembler programmers to do the
reverse. Both languages have their places, and there are also many
situations where neither one is the best choice.
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