Jun 17, 2026, 10:56 by [email protected]: > Speaking of academia: clearly any "academic" who claims Assembler is dead is > unqualified for the job. It may be true that not very much application code > is written in assembler. But it should be obvious that competence in > assembler is absolutely necessary in order to build a compiler -- in > particular, a compiler back-end. >
It also calls into question the Operating Systems courses said academic's employers offer. As embarrassing (well, maybe un-sexy) as it would be to admit, a non-trivial amount of platform specific assembly language is written for OSes (usually for drivers, but there are other bits of the OS involved as well). Even for simulation environments like OSP. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ My code, of course, begins with 4GH.
