Re: book on assembly language

>Reply to article by: "\\o/annabee" <http://www.TheWannabee.org>
>Date written: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:39:03 +0200
>MsgID:<opsowkvd0p8ujdc3@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.

>;-)) No but if a fact is true for me, in all liklyhood true for others as well.

It may well be but that doesn't tell us anything about HOW MANY others would
feel the same, and that it the most important question here. I've been on the
Internet and so have you, so we both have a pretty good idea of how popular ASM
is with all computer langague programmers -- commercial or amatuer. And the
answer is: very few. You act like you are talking about the whole here, when in
reality you are talking about an extremely small minority.

But your feelings or whether one or two more people in the world are not
relevant to the fact that ASM was only mainstream for an extremely short period
of time before giving way to HLL and what the vast majority of programmers have
proven for themselves is superior to ASM. That's why ASM isn't even mentioned in
the vast majority of literature on the history of programming languages. ASM was
never an important language and never will, at least as being a mainstream
langauge, and history proves this out.

>Theres great diffrence between programming and religion ? At least thats
>how I view it. But you maybe think this notion comes from religious
>beliefe as well?

There is no difference between the two at least where you are concerned. That's
because you preach that ASM is great but the only way anyone could ever believe
your preaching is to simply take it on faith. I am immune to religion so when
you repeat your mantra that "ASM is great, ASM is good" and then...nothing. I
say to myself, "That person is delusional". Saying something is great doesn't
prove it is great. You need to demonstrate, not assert without evidence.
Unfortunatley for you, seeing as a simple internet search reveals that there is
no controversy over whether HLL is superior to ASM because the vast majority of
people that have significant professional working experience in programming
(which would include all the experts) know for a fact that HLL is superior to
ASM. If you can convince them then you will have no problem convincing me. But
your "Believe in ASM just because I say so" just doesn't cut it. I only believe
in demonstrable facts, not mantras.

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