Now i dont understand why somepeople hate assembly and treat it as evil. Assembly is very much a hardware dependent language. It cannot be treated like the other high level language we use. We can not say that its obsolete and that anyone who uses assembly is a primitive low level retard. It has its place in programming and and it fulfills its role very well.
I agree with Doc Mana. Pablo Manalastas wrote: >On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Jerome Tan wrote: > >>>On the contrary, assembly languages are the most short-lived of >>>the programming languages. They DIE as soon as the manufacturer >>>stops producing the associated processor. >>> >>No... they don't die. The reference of the instructions and the bits/codes, >>etc. change... >> > >I do not know why English is such a beautiful language that so many >shades of meaning can be associated with the concept of DEATH of an >assembly language. Specific assembly languages for specific >processors have died. Period. They are dead because the processor >is not in use anymore. No one programs in that assembly language because >the processor is not there anymore to program for. Naanhin pa ang damo >kung patay na ang kabayo? > >>No... they don't die. The reference of the instructions and the bits/codes, >>etc. change... >> > >When the instruction set changes, then you have a different processor. >When the manufacturer freezes the processor into silicon, the instruction >set is fixed. Any change in the instruction set is usually an improvement >such as when i386 processor was upgraded to i486 and then to the Pentium. >Or the change could be a completely new processor. > >I think what you are trying to say (and please correct me if I'm >wrong), is that the practice of assembly language programming in general >(using some assembly language like i386 assembly) will probably never >die. Time critical portions of some applications need to be written >in assembly language. > >However, that does not change the historical fact that many assembly >languages have died. > >PMana > > >_ >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]
