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Re: Favourite Programming Language

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Originally Posted by Phalanx View Post
Long long before micro processors where born, long long before the PC was invented, before Cobol, before Fortran, before C there was Assembly.

It was the first language I ever learned. All the others seem convoluted, and cumbersome by comparrision. Nothing like the really SMALL and FAST code you get from Assembly.

I still write mission critical, time, speed and resources sensitive system level functions in assembly code today. It's the only way to fly.
But do you still use punch cards?
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