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Why not assembly?

Aztec · 2000-05-23T16:15:22

why isn''t there more attention paid to programming in assembly language? it is faster, more efficient, and an all around better language. It would seem that more people would want to program in it......

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Started by Aztec May 18, 2000 05:41 PM

23 comments, last by Aztec 23 years, 11 months ago

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May 23, 2000 06:58 AM

quote:Original post by Jonathan

Not to be rude, but as I''m reading over this thread, I''m seeing everyone say almost exactly the same thing over and over and over again Kinda funny.

Well if loads of people are saying it, it must be true surely?

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alexmoura

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May 23, 2000 02:49 PM

...well in the middle ages, most people would say that the earth was flat.
Hear people out and then think for yourself

40 Thieves

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May 23, 2000 03:42 PM

this case though would be more like everybody looking at a marble in your hand and saying "it''s flat".... more evidence is what''s guiding these decisions... not old folk tales.

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Zipster

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May 23, 2000 03:54 PM

WHy not assembly? well, if we all started using assembly, hmm, there goes 10% of all programmers since they dont know assembly

quote:...and an all around better language.

Yeah, if you think like a computer, which we dont. Humans have a knack for Objects, so Object Oriented programming is alsmost natural, sorta

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Edited by - Zipster on May 23, 2000 4:56:11 PM

baskuenen

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May 23, 2000 04:15 PM

I''m also an assembly lover, but check this out:

- Coded your routines in asm, optimized it, then realized you wanted 32bits numbers instead of 8bits...Problemo!
- Or now you want float instead of int...muchos problemos!
- Tightly optimized your proc, now you want to insert a tiny command...restart optimization of probably entire proc!

If C then easier.

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