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Re:Why learn C? by johnm on Thursday June 28, 2012 @11:47AM (#4172238)
Indeed and even more... The entire GEOS operating system, gui/windowing system, application suite, and the vast majority of the rest of the apps were written in 8086 assembly language and ran on an original IBM PC.
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Re:Why learn C? by gaius on Thursday June 28, 2012 @02:39PM (#4173177)
Even business apps on mainframes were written in assembler... In fact a quick Google shows they still are! http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hlasm/library.html?S...
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Re:Why learn C? by Someone on Thursday June 28, 2012 @06:56PM (#4174382)
There are a few niches where new code is written in assembler (numerical code, parts of standard libraries), but in general, I think 'maintained' is a better word to use.
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