Re: book on assembly language

The_Sage <The_Sage@xxxxxxx> écrivait
news:e63951lsgntjssbrtnatic18eauacj0gpa@xxxxxxx:

> Aside from the self-perpetuating assembler market, what other valid
> useful ASM applications are there on your computer, being used right
> now? By vaild useful ASM applications, I mean things like email
> programs, web browsers, full fledged graphics programs, CAD,
> full-fledged games, and so on. I have zero, exactly the same number
> that every one of the people at my work and my friends have. Think
> about how many valid ASM applications are being commercialized or even
> seriously being considered by any commercial company in the world?
> There are a couple of lame OSes that are written completely in ASM but
> they have trouble even giving those away. I have seen thousands of
> trivial "Hello World!" and other "demo" or "example" programs but
> nothing significant.

Write one, and 1) you will have, at least... one,
2) You will see by yourself how easy it is and will
make up your mind of the many advantages of Programming
in Assembly.

This is rather proven, now, that it is not me who could
convince the people, who think what you think that you
are wrong, but, the Tool itself, and the people themselves.

:)


> Programmers don't avoid writing applications in ASM because, as you
> pretend, ASM is difficult or "elitist". Companies and programmers
> abandoned ASM years ago, because programming in a higher-level
> language is superior to in terms of maintainability, readability, and
> quality due to ease of debugging. In other words, except for the ASM
> fanatics in this newsgroup, the rest of the world agrees that ASM
> sucks.

No. They used HLLs because the Compilers Authors were
in need of MONEY. There is no other reason than this
single one.

Why, is because you can write a new HLL every now and
then, make some Pub and SELL it. In Assembly this would
have been impossible because, once the guys are Asmers,
they do not have anything, anymore... to BUY. Period.

All HLLs are evidently way INFERIOR "to Asm in terms of
maintainability, readability, and quality due to ease
of debugging". Did you only gave a little try to RosAsm
Debugger? Of course, NO, NEVER, EVIDENT. So...

The fact that you write such a thing, so opposed to
truth and to any easily verifiable fact shows only
that you never gave Assembly a try. In such case, i
have nothing to answer but: Make yourself a favour,
try it.


Betov.

< http://rosasm.org/ >



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