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I started programming on an amiga. After some amigabasic and later amos, a wanted to learn a real language. I got a book about C, but the compiler was a pain. I

I started programming on an amiga. After some amigabasic and later amos, a wanted to learn a real language. I got a book about C, but the compiler was a pain. It didn't fit in one floppy and I has no hard drive. Learning assembly was the natural way out.

vidarh 6y ago
There was that weird period on the Amiga when using assembler felt easier - especially with a proper macro assembler - than C. I remember having a C library for some user interface component that I compiled to C and then disassembled to optimise (by hand) because the C compiler was "useless" and improve on. Of course the Amiga got other interesting languages, like AmigaE (whose author is probably better known for FlatBuffers these days, but AmigaE was a usability revelation at the time)