The advent of modern optimizing compilers and many fold enhancements in computing hardware performance have now eliminated the need to use an assembly language in most applications and most applications are now written in higher level languages.

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Samoan Language Week kicks off at Wellington East Girls College on Tuesday 31 May with students from around the Wellington region celebrating the language of Samoa in song, oratory and performance.

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They do know, however, that the language and the reality of "performance gaps" in economic performance, in the health service, in education and elsewhere has hardened into more than unfathomable statistics and stark headlines.

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