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Old March 5th 19, 04:29 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default C is not a low level language

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Mon, 25 Feb 2019
17:17:49 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

I think it is good for programmers to have some experience of
assembly, and to have understanding of it - it helps give a
better appreciation of how things work underneath, and can lead
to the programmer writing better high-level code (especially on
smaller systems). But that is different from actually writing
assembly for real work.


what matters the most are good algorithms, and knowing assembly
does not help with that.


IMO, I believe it does.




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