Re: book on assembly language

"wolfgang kern" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait news:d30qof$qtg$1
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> "Betov" answered "The_Sage":
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>| > ASM is more properly taught as a speciality langauge in electronics
>| > and embedded computing classes.
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>| > As a general purpose langauge, ASM had it's day and it is over.
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>| Thanks for coming here, and telling us that we
>| do not exist, and that we are dead... But, if
>| so, who are you talking to?
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> At least this time a can particular agree with The Sage
> (isn't _that_ troll styled yet).
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> Yes: ASM is a machine specific rather than a general purpose language.
> Yes: ASM is the language for well educated engineers,
> while HLL/HLA may be good to satisfy user-level merchants greed.
> Yes: ASM days are over for all the 'fast but dirty coders' who sell
> their LIB-copied and untested *** to the unaware masses.


Depends on who say the words. :))

Yes, of course, this is the state of facts. We are
here to try to review these facts, and, as long as
there will be Asmers outputing valid Applications,
and Assemblers authors creating the required Tools
for this purpose, the game will not be over.

In some way, nowadays Assembly is more a fresh new
concept than an old thing, that we would have to
rescussitate from the grave-yard. As you know, none
of us is rewriting Debug.exe, TASM or MASM.

:)

But i do not really agrea with point 2: "ASM is the
language for well educated engineers". There is no
effective reason for this to be true.

If Assembly is not (not YET) the proper Tool for true
beginners, or for "uneducated engineers" :)) , - though
i honnestly think that we are coming close to... - this
is only a matter of Interfaces Developements. There
is no reason why an Assembly Environnement could not
do the exact same things as any HLL, the exact same
way. We can do the same, and we can do better. Nothing
but a big QUANTITY of work.

There is nothing necessary elitist, at all, in Assembly
language. After all, bulding a descent Web Site, or a
good Documentation, is way more difficult, way more
painfull, than writting an Application in Assembly, and
nobody calls these so killing tasks "elistist".


Betov.

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