On Monday, September 7, 2020 at 12:45:46 PM UTC-4, Gary wrote:

> I'm impressed. I was just delving into assembly language
> when I got divorced and full time care of daughter.
> Let it go then as not much personal time left.
>
> I did do several subroutines in Assembly in Basic programs.
> Much faster and efficent. Just a simple JSR.
>
> I had just started trying recreate a program I liked in
> all assembly language when I had to stop. By time I got
> back to it, Commodores were history and new stuff was
> completely different.

And that's why high-level languages were invented. You
can program in C (for example) and as long as you're not _too_
close to the hardware you can compile it for another
architecture/OS and it's all good.

The software my employer produces is two parts: one
runs on the target hardware and is mainly C with a
tiny bit of assembler where speed is of the essence.
The target hardware might be PowerPC, Intel, or ARM
running any of a variety of OSs. The other part runs
on an ordinary PC and provides the human interface
to the target software and it only has to be as fast as a
person, which isn't very fast (compared to the stresses
in a helicopter blade or jet engine).

Cindy Hamilton