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Article #623270Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:25
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:25
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On 4/27/2018 9:08 AM, Walter Banks wrote: > 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. > I know Walter Banks is *not* discussing an x86 processor.... but... People are even more discouraged from learning or using machine or assembly code by the *awful* instruction set of x86 processors. So lets say that *fewer* people code in assembly language than would code in assembly language... if the processor had a decent, reasonable, logically devised instruction set. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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