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Article #623277Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:41
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:41
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-04-27, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > When x86 first came out, I was heavily into assembly language programming - > mostly IBM 360 and clones, but a few others as well. Early x86 programming > was sufficiently horrible that I decided to get out of assembly language > programming. Fortunately C was on the rise, so I had somewhere to go. > That saved me a lot of pain: not all, because even in C I had to worry > about that damned 64K barrier imposed by the segmented architecture. > Newer models of x86 might be better, but I don't care anymore. > That trash went away a llooonnnggg time ago. Good to be reminded, though, I'd forgotten how truly horrible it used to be, even in C. -- Pete
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