On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:45:25AM +0800, Jerome Tan wrote: > Assembly language will NEVER go away... in fact that's the only programming > language I can think as of now that's feasible to stay forever...
Yes, but soon it won't be practical for more than a handful of people to use. And those people are compiler designers (who need to know assembly language so their compilers can actually generate code), OS and hardware driver developers (who need it to do some low-level operations), and embedded systems engineers (who are generally under serious hardware constraints and don't have a lot of the luxuries those who program for general purpose computers take for granted). If you are not in one of these fields, assembly language programming is of little use. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
