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pjmlpyesterday at 1:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Why is writing inline Assembly considered an advantage of C, a language extension even not part of ISO, and always used to point out issues when other languages make use of it?

Naturally there had to be a balance, until mid-90s what we consider AAA games, were mostly Assembly.


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WillAdamsyesterday at 1:41 PM

I didn't mention C.

The observation was that linking in the Pascal library was problematic when one was storing everything on a single 400KB Micro Floppy.

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