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Article #623298Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:48
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:48
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 04:37:30 -0500, Andy Leighton <an...@azaal.plus.com> wrote: >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. I believe that you would have found moving to the IBM 3x0 was equally painful.
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