On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, fooler wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian C. Sison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:25 PM > Subject: [plug] Re: Assembly language (long rant!) (was Re: Komodo WAS >> > Re: [plug] Perl is Powerful!!! =) > > > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, 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... > > > > > > > I guess so. Because if you have a medium to large software development > > project and you choose to use _assembly language_, it may pretty much take > > you _forever_ to finish it. > > i think what jerome means is that, no matter what, assembly will stay > forever because probably C or Pascal will repalce by another much improve > programming language in the future created by assembly language. > > regarding to time development, thats true it takes time to finish it > especially if you are starting to write code from scratch (without ready > made procedures and functions) and besides, the existence and definition of > a *high level language* is to provide rapid application development and > getting away directly to communicate with the hardwares and a *low level > language* is the vice-versa of this. > > despite of the fact that high level language will increase your productivity > but borland engineers still use their traditional and favorite assembly > language to create their high level languages such as C, Pascal, Delphi, > Java, etc. i remember the time when they released Turbo Pascal Version 6, > this released version was created thru using turbo pascal version 5 and not > assembly language. so what happened? its too damn slow.. until they released > version 7 as fast as they could that created from assembly language and > youll amazingly notice the speed difference. >
Ah the good old days, when people actually _cared_ that their programs exceuted with blinding speed. I still cannot forget the speed at which TP4 compiled several thousand line pascal code. You had to press F9 several times just to make yourself believe the speed! Nowadays, the crapware coming from Microsoft simply says, "must run on a Pentium XX XXXMHz". With Windows XP, which has taken away much of the pure assembly code of the Windows product line and more the the C++ of the NT product line, expect this to be a more common occurence... _ 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]
