On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 03:19 pm, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:51:48PM +0000, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
You have to agree, though, that the *mother* of all incomprehensible programming languages has to be Assembly language.
No, no, no, that has to be Prolog...
No, I disagree, seriously. Assembly language was the easiest language I
have learned. Tedious to use, but easy to understand. It followed what
was going on in the CPU in a straightforward manner, little abstraction.
Some assembly languages (such as M68000 and VAX) were designed to be easily written and read by humans (and they both are). I regularly used to check that VAX C was doing a good job of optimising things by reading the dissassembled output. And back when I had an Atari ST I wrote programs in a mixture of C and 68000 assembly language.
But modern RISC processors have much less readable assembly language since they were designed to be used with higher level programming tools (optimising compilers and such).
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