Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:14421 comp.lang.forth:691 comp.lang.misc:2231 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!vsi1!octopus!avsd!childers From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Assembly or .... Keywords: religious wars Message-ID: <295@avsd.UUCP> Date: 25 Nov 88 21:43:55 GMT References: <1388@aucs.UUCP> Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: AMPEX Corporation, Redwood City, CA Lines: 52 In article <1388@aucs.UUCP> 861087p@aucs.UUCP (A N D R E A S) writes: > Since this are Newsgroups that mainly programmers write I >would like to ask them if it really worth it to spend time to >learn assembly language. Yes. >I know that when you program in assembly you loose the portability but >you gain in speed. And power, and control, and precision. >Device drivers are also written in assemly. Well, they're sketched in higher level languages, then tweaked on the assembler code, massaging instructions for maximum throughput. >So why is everybody against assembly when many programs available are >written in assembly? Because every time a new processor comes out, you need to go back to being a dummy again, and people get tired of it after a few times. Not everybody, but you're faced with a choice of either studying further and getting into board design and chip selection ... or saying the hell with it and going back up to C. > I hope I'll get some answers from you guys! << Baby Bic on >> I hope you don't get flamed to death by the 'guys'. For one thing, Usenet is non-sexist, in general. For another, it's considered good manners to post only to newsgroups strictly related to the topic ... and not to use diversity as a method of addressing *everybody in the world and their sister*. In this case, as your material was admittedly miscellaneous, it would have been most appropriate to post it to comp.misc *only*, and wait a few weeks for messages to perpetuate across the nation and back. << Baby Bic off >> >The number of the beast is 80386|Andreas Pikoulas That's funny, I thought it was SVR3 ... (-: -- richard -- * Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop * * * * ..{amdahl|decwrl|octopus|pyramid|ucbvax}!avsd.UUCP!childers@tycho * * AMPEX Corporation - Audio-Visual Systems Division, R & D *