The level of application layers is increasing nowadays... didn't you notice? Adding the web application layer and stuffs.... how many more layers to be added soon? The VBA thing is already added on Microsoft apps and some others... the % of programmers using Assembly will get fewer and fewer...
Regards/ Jerome ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:05 PM Subject: Re: Assembly language (long rant!) (was Re: Komodo WAS >> Re: [plug] Perl is Powerful!!! =) > 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] > _ 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]
