FORTRAN or ASM

Which is smaller and faster, FORTRAN or ASM? Or is there some other language thats faster and smaller than both of them?

[Sam Finch]

there is nothing that's smaller or faster than ASM, if you're good at ASM, if you suck at ASM then another language is probably better, but if you make sure you don't move data in and out of the chip too much and try to avoid jumping then ASM is probably faster than FORTRAN, and smaller if you try to write small code. Although I don't know FORTRAN so it could be some kind of really clever language that translates into good ASM even if you Suck.

Nicholas Firth said in 1977:

I do not know what the major language of 2025 will do.
I do not know how it will operate.
I do not know why it will have been created.
I do not know who will use it.
I do not know what computer it will run on.
But it will be called FORTRAN.

Fortran is the language that engineers used on Big Iron
during the '60s and '70s. COBOL was for business weenies.
It sucks. Almost as bad as COBOL.

DerFarm

Wirth, Wirth, Wirth.......I'm having a senior moment here.
The guy's name is Nicholas Wirth.

DerFarm