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Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming



"Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:bdapi8$t3m$5@titan.btinternet.com...
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> Okey-dokey:  So notwithstanding the somewhat obvioous point that low-level
> languages (like assembler) will probably better facilitate low-level
access
> (such as direct memory-mapped port access) than high-level languages, then
> just what sort of tasks are being considered to be possible in assembley
> language but not in a high level language like Algol, Fortran, Cobol, C,
> Pascal or Java ?
> Kevin.
> P.S.:   BTW can anyone remember what the original point being discussed in
> this thread was ?

I don't know what the original post was, but by going by the subject line it
sounds like it is on tartget.