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Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers

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From: Dan Espen
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:29
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manh...@gmail.com writes:

> Someone will respond correctly to all following questions:
>
> What is the probable quantity of programmers that currently are coding
> in machine code?
>
> For example, only 1 programmer is currently coding in machine code?
>
> 2? 5?
>  
> What is the percentage of programmers that currently are coding in
> machine code?
>
> 1%? 2%?
>
> What is the probable quantity of programmers that currently are coding
> in Assembly?
>
> For example, only 1 programmer is currently coding in Assembly?
>
> 4? 10?
>
> What is the percentage of programmers that currently are coding in
> Assembly?
>
> 2%? 4%?

Oh, you want a correct answer, not a guess.

Well then the correct answer is NOBODY KNOWS.

What makes you think anyone would know the answer to that question?

I'm retired now, but my last job was programming mostly in S/360
Assembler.

-- 
Dan Espen
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