On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 15:07:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 14:58:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
People who are more than casually interested in computers
should
have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is
like.
Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
-- D. Knuth
Well, while I do agree in general, there is a huge difference
between understanding how h/w executes machine code and
casually reading assembly listings ;)
I disagree. There is nothing in asm except how the machine works
(plus a few convenience features e.g. not having to read actual
opCodes in octal/hex). If you understand how the h/w works then
you understand assembly code. It would simply be a matter of
getting used to the notation.
Plus, I would argue that learning assembly is a great path to
understanding the machine itself. To be honest I can't imagine it
any other way.
