There are less C keywords than ASM instructions. Simple is always better.
c:[short code sample snipped]
asm:[longer but equivalent code sample snipped]
Just out of curiosity -- once these examples are both compiled, will they take up an equivalent amount of space and/or take an equivalent amount of time to run?
Or more generally, when programming languages include shorter ways of doing things that previous languages, how much of that comes from the writers of the newer languages having a better understanding of how to do things, and how much comes from shortcuts written into the newer language that make coding easier, but make no actual difference after compilation?
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