Re: Programming: Not stressful? Yeah, right...

Dave wrote:

> Whoever said programming is a low stress hobby/career has
> obviously never attempted to programm in ASM. For months I was
> debating whether or not I should learn ASM, and for some stupid
> reason, I decided to breakdown and buy a few books about it.
> It's been about 3 months since then, and I've never been so
> stressed out in my entire life trying to learn it. It's just too
> difficult. I have a strong background in C and C++, so I thought
> I'd pick up ASM quickly. Boy, was I ever wrong.
>
> I have a deep respect for all of you ASM programmers out there.
> I really do. I'm glad you had the patience to learn it...

Hmm. It seems stress is a function of how closely a language attends to the
needs of the programmer. ASM attends to the needs of your processor.

I hope nobody programs in only ASM, all day. I hope that even for embedded
projects, engineers spend most of their time working on the tools supporting
the firmware. If they follow the guidelines surrounding the adage "premature
optimization is the root of all evil", they will work to avoid ASM, and will
only use it after they have a reference implementation, in a higher level
language, that needs to be optimized.

Shouldn't translating a reference implementation into ASM be easier than
coding raw ASM from scratch?

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