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Andrew Merenbach wrote:
[...]

> A previous post mentioned Assembly as the worst.  Wouldn't it be, since it's
> pretty much the most basic language there is, on top of which most others
> are written?

Not a chance, actually.  Assembly on some machines makes it pretty easy.  For
example, on the Intel chip, you actually have instructions to scan for a
character, copy blocks of characters from place to place, and so on.  If you add
BIOS functionality, you even get string printing for "free."

Motorola is a little bit harder at some points, but still not bad.

Little building blocks does not mean "hard."  Tedious, maybe.  However, if the
high-level language you use only has string operations "concatenate string to
itself," "truncate to three characters," and "reverse string," then you're going
to have a horrible time getting anything useful accomplished...and THAT is hard.



