[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)
- From: mbhangui@xxxxxxxxx (Manvendra Bhangui)
- Date: Wed Sep 30 14:52:16 2009
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Sure and writing in assembly language will probably use even few sys
calls. However I think the focus is on the wrong place in this argument.
Programmer's time is often more valuable than machine time.
Agreed. However it depends on the programming skills of the writer and the
kind of program you are writing. If you want to write a quick and fast and
something simple, it can be done in a scripting language. However, if you
are writing a device driver, it would be better to write that in 'C'. If you
are writing the a python library or perl library for doing something
complicated, it would be faster and better done in C. Python and perl itself
are written in C. The bourne shell is also written in C and so is bulk of
the OS.
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