On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > harrismh777 wrote: >> >> 'C' is still the best high-level language on that processor. > > Some would argue that C is actually better than assembler these > days, because modern architectures are so freaking complicated > that it takes a computer to figure out the best instruction > sequence. :-(
I use C to hint to the compiler as to what I'd like it to write a program to do. It does all the writing, I just make some vague suggestions - which it's free to ignore if it chooses. GCC and me, we get along jess fine... ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
