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Article #623296Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: John Levine
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:32
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:32
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In article <pbvbrg$ee1$1...@dont-email.me>, 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. Having spent a certain amount of time coding for the minimal highly logical PDP-8, with an instruction set so small you could memorize it (including the binary values) I'll take the x86 any day. What it may lack in symmetry it makes up in ability to get stuff done. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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