Programmer's conundrums

[Brad Parker]

Don Y wrote:
>
>The code in the gasoline pump up the corner was written in
>assembly language (unfortunately... it was the perfect
>application to move to a HLL but...  :< ).

depends on the pump.  and the box inside the office which monitors all
the pumps and reports (via the internet) on the tank gauges runs linux
:-)

-brad

>Thankfully, most HLL's make bit-banging really difficult.

i disagree.  i've managed (with others) to get C to be so close to asm
that asm wasn't worth it.

and bit banging in lisp is really nice.

so, ok, BASIC is a pain.

-brad