Re: book on assembly language

>Reply to article by: "\\o/annabee" <http://www.TheWannabee.org>
>Date written: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:12:26 +0200
>MsgID:<opsoul60mo8ujdc3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>>Companies and programmers abandoned ASM years ago,
>>because programming in a higher-level language is superior to in terms of
>>maintainability,

>The world changes. You do not seem to keep up. I use Rosasm every day,
>that is significant. I stopped using Delphi because of it! I used borland
>tools since before bpw 1.0 How would I ditch all those years and
>200000++ lines of modular mostly working code, for Rosasm, if I was
>religious only?

So you think that just because you use Rosasm every day, that the whole rest of
the world does too? That's like saying "I speak chinese every day" and assume
that everyone else must speak or want to speak chinese too. And you think just
because you abandoned Delphi for Rosasm, that proves Rosasm is better than
Delphi and the rest of the world will follow in your footsteps? That is exactly
the type of thinking that a religious person resorts to, ie -- you blindly
believe everything revolves you and what you do or think, and you never bother
to find out what the real world is like apart from yourself. Your "logic" reeks
of blind faith fanaticism in the way you assume, based merely on your own
personal experience alone, that you can create a complete sound argument soley
on just what you do and think all by your lonesome. You obviously have the one
and only assembler God and all the other assembler Gods are false.

But let's discuss this from a non-personal (read: non-religious) point of view
instead of your "I [the Wannabee] am the center of the universe" one, ie -- what
does real life history record about real life people's preferences in actual
programming languages? Why did the vast majority of people switch from ASM to an
HLL, in history past? In other words, what happened in the actual world that
caused people to abandon ASM in droves and flock to the anti-ASM HLLs? A simple
web search reveals that the vast majority of web sites on the history of
programming do not even mention assembly language in the history of programming
langauges, as if it wasn't even considered a programming language. That just
goes to demonstrate just how little effect ASM ever had on the evolution of
programming and just how incredibly small the user base has been all along. The
evolution of programming has been towards machine code independence, which means
that ASM is as primitive and as backwards as one can get from the ultimate
purpose of a programming language. See
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2003/02/Schorsch.html for example.

So in real life, you are actually still living in the 40's instead of keeping up
with the evolution of programming that has occured in the last 60 years. But of
course, being the religious fanatic that you are, you will deny this all with
facts or evidence, and you will resort to with more of your lame "mine and only
my experience with ASM has been...".

>I work much faster with Rosasm. and code run much faster even i I am new
>to asm.

I imagine you do work faster with Rosasm than you do any other language because
I also imagine you are so incompetent with other languages that you cannot do
any useful programming on them at all. Case in point: What applications are you
writing? Let me guess: you are writing some game like tic-tac-toe or some
useless screen saver that does elementary things like plasmas or fractals or a
bunch of "Hello World!"- like demos or code snippets...but no full fledged CAD
programs or word processors or 1st person games or browsers or email programs.
In other words, you are not creating anything that anyone would consider paying
or donating money to.

>>readability, and quality due to ease of debugging.

>100% wrong. You're a really suck truth seeker.

What kind of lame mantra is that? You are so convincing...naught!

>>In other
>>words, except for the ASM fanatics in this newsgroup, the rest of the
>>world agrees that ASM sucks.

>No, even non-programmers know that asm is best, at least every gamer.

Prove it.

>But
>they wrongly belive that it is more difficult to use, when listening to
>the fools like you propagating myths.

Oh, I see! You are the only one who can get it right and it is the vast majority
of the rest of the world that can't get it right. You are the ASM Messiah and
you are the only one who can save the world from the anti-ASM, but the anti-ASM
has clouded the minds of unbelievers.

Right!

>Shame on you for recenting truth for folklore!

The shame in on you for not be able to defend your make believe version of truth
with anything more than a lame "just because I say so".

The Sage

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