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Article #623269Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Walter Banks
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:08
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:08
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On 2018-04-26 7:47 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > On 4/26/18 4:23 PM, manh...@gmail.com wrote: >> Currently how many programmers coding in machine code? Currently >> how many programmers coding in Assembly? > > These are unanswerable questions. No one even knows how many > programmers there are. > > > I have a couple data points. I worked on the ISA of a co-processor for automotive and general aviation engine controllers. We wrote a C compiler for this processor. We did not initially provide an assembler for this processor (compile directly to machine code) This a heavily used processor with hundreds of new applications per year (10's million devices per year) Two years after release we released an assembler. No one had ever complained to support. Since then I know of a single piece of application code written in assembler that has been released for shipment by a customer. w..
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