Assembler vs C

[rej at cornell.UUCP]

C can replace assembler.  The only use for assembler on VAXen is to
write the context switching routines and to improve the speed of a
few commonly used subroutines.  People that I know programming in C
on a 68000 never seem to use assembler.  The Cornell Program Synthesiser
is written in C and runs on many PDP-11s across campus.  Its device
drivers and overlay routines are written in C, with only the process
switching routines being in assembler.

Ralph Johnson  cornell!rej