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Article #623297Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Andy Leighton
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 09:37
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 09:37
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:32:07 -0000 (UTC), John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > 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. Yeah but if you were familiar with 68000 assembly language then moving to the 8086/88 (or successors) was painful. -- Andy Leighton => an...@azaal.plus.com "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - Douglas Adams
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