Re: book on assembly language

>Reply to article by: "Alex" <alex@xxxxxxxx>
>Date written: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:32:37 +1000
>MsgID:<425133ed$0$29867$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>I was in the city just recently in a Major bookstore, I picked up a few
>reference books on C and spotted a couple of randal hydes's Books, One on
>assembly language (cant remember title) and the other 'Write great code'. 'Write
>great code' was rather interesting, I was going to buy both, until I picked up
>the book on asm, and saw that is wasnt based on the real raw intel asm syntax
>which I have grown to love. It looked more like 'how to master asssembly
>language using HLA' or some other high level version of Asm. So I decided to buy
>neither. Why are people so scared of trying to teach real intel x86 syntax?

Because they've made it into a religion. But like a typical religion, it is bass
ackwards from the rest of the world. ASM was abandoned as a major language years
ago for higher level langauges which was far more easier to maintain, debug, and
write. You will hear lots of mantras to the contrary but only within the
confines of their ASM religious groups.

>Ii dont consider HLA to be assembler, certainly not a _real_ x86 assembler..

Of course it isn't because "high-level" and assembler are a contradiction of
terms.

>Ahh the good old days of writing virueses in asm under DOS were great fun.

>My point is, mr hyde, why not write a book on asm that doesnt major in macro's and high
>level assembler? Why not just teach the native instructions instead of your reborn version
>of the asm language.

>Did the bookshop miss a major publication of yours?

ASM is more properly taught as a speciality langauge in electronics and embedded
computing classes. As a general purpose langauge, ASM had it's day and it is
over.

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