> So what? Those words probably had a good argument behind them, at the time.
> In the MS-DOS days, compilers weren't as good as today, so handwritten ASM paid off.
Just like C compilers had enough money spent into their optimizers, that eventually made them competitive against Assembly, so can C#,Go,D, <whatever language> have enough work placed into them, that eventually they will become competitive against C.
People believed they could make C competitive against Assembly, just like they believe they could make C++ competitive against C.
So it is a matter if one wants to believe and lead, or don't and follow.
> In the MS-DOS days, compilers weren't as good as today, so handwritten ASM paid off.
Just like C compilers had enough money spent into their optimizers, that eventually made them competitive against Assembly, so can C#,Go,D, <whatever language> have enough work placed into them, that eventually they will become competitive against C.
People believed they could make C competitive against Assembly, just like they believe they could make C++ competitive against C.
So it is a matter if one wants to believe and lead, or don't and follow.