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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming

Subject: Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming
From: "White Flame $aka David Holz$" <whiteflame52@y.a.h.o.o.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:54:09 -0700
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"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> The truth is that your statement "If you can do it in
> asm you can do it in any language that is sufficiently complete." is not
> quite true.

Another example is the Carry bit.  I don't recall ever seeing a high-level
language that exposes it.  It'd be great for doing bignums, or bit
processing.

--
White Flame (aka David Holz)
http://www.white-flame.com/
(spamblock in effect)

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