On 2013-11-05 19:23, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Well yes. My point was not to force students to write *all* their code in assembly, but to give them some experience in writing small(!) assembly programs so that they get a taste of how the machine actually works under the hood. Once they have that down, I'd move straight on to a nice high-level language like D, because in 90% of the code you write, you don't *need* the kind of performance direct assembly coding gives you.
Some times you need assembly, not for performance, but because it gives you access to hardware you don't have access to otherwise. But that will most likely be a very small part of your code as well.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
