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by PaulHoule 1620 days ago
Single people wrote whole commercial programs in assembly language in four to six months.

Of course, C is overrated and not much easier than a good macro assembler, but people working on micros in 1980 often didn't have a good macro assembler and even people working today don't have good macro assemblers.

I would have given up Arduino programming in C long ago if it wasn't for the possibility that I might need something more powerful than AVR-8 and C is portable.