1) There is no "C" seduction from my side for sure I have done assembler since the 70's and as of late accepted "C" as a reasonable substitue in some cases. I learned most of my programming skills by observing what did (not) happen when stepping through code on a PDP-8. If you are a beginner and write some code and it does not work as you predicted, is there any better way to find out than stepping through it and seeing the register contents for every step?. We all have our methods and while Jay an I seem to agree on the goal (speed and compactnes) we may not achieve that goal by the same means. Although I have done some work w/o an emulator I still prefer to have one, there is no better means of catching clerical errors. That it is the worst possible method for catching fundamental errors is another story.
Let's agree to disagree.
Erik