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Article #623273Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:56
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:56
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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: >On 4/27/2018 9:08 AM, Walter Banks wrote: >> Since then I know of a single piece of application code written in >> assembler that has been released for shipment by a customer. >> > >I know Walter Banks is *not* discussing an x86 processor.... but... > >People are even more discouraged from learning or using machine or >assembly code by the *awful* instruction set of x86 processors. Nonsense. It's not more awful than IBM 360, HP-3000 or the Univac. Have you actually written any 64-bit x86 assembler? This isn't an 8086 anymore. People don't program in assembler because it doesn't make sense to do so for anyone other than a handful of kernel programmers that need to write the bootstrap code for the processor.
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