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Article #623274Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Kerr-MuddJohn
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:21
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:21
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:56:03 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: > Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: >>On 4/27/2018 9:08 AM, Walter Banks wrote: > >>> 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. > > Nonsense. It's not more awful than IBM 360, HP-3000 or the Univac. > Have you actually written any 64-bit x86 assembler? This isn't an > 8086 anymore. > > People don't program in assembler because it doesn't make > sense to do so for anyone other than a handful of kernel > programmers that need to write the bootstrap code for the > processor. > > there are at least 3 people still subscribed to news:comp.lang.assembler.x86 -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
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