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Article #623321Re: Quantity of machine code and Assembly programmers
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:57
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:57
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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: >On 4/26/2018 7:15 PM, Peter Flass wrote: >> 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. >> > >Things like device drivers and such might benefit from being written in >assembly be a very good assembly language programmer. That hasn't been shown to be the case. Not one single modern operating system has drivers written in assembler. C compilers generate _very_ good (usually better than hand coded) object code these days.
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