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Article #623312Re: Quantity of machine code and Assembly programmers
From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:15
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:15
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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:20:00 -0700 (PDT), manh...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Currently how many programmers coding in machine code? >> >> What is the percentage of programmers that currently coding in machine code? >> >> Currently how many programmers coding in Assembly? >> >> What is the percentage of programmers that currently coding in Assembly? > > According to the Tiobe Index approximately 1.66 percent which works > out to around 300,000. > Interesting. Pretty much everything can be written in a language like C these days, although even Linux has some bits of assembler. Small-memory imbedded systems can use cross-compilers. I have a few assembler bits in the Iron Spring PL/I RTL, but that's only because I didn't want any dependencies on a C compiler. -- Pete
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