Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:10:18 +0200 | From | "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <> | Subject | [OT] Re: nasm over gas? |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > I strongly suggest that if you have an interest in assembly, you > cultivate that interest. Soon most all mundane coding will be > performed by machine from a specification written by "Sales". > The only "real" programming will be done by those who can make > the interface between the hardware and the "coding machine". That's > assembly! >
I have a long standing dispute with one of my friend: once he has said 'asm is dead - every one is using C/C++ now'.
Those I wasn't able to counter this claim. TSR programmes gone together with DOS, and ordinary desktops started challenging expensive workstations.
But little bit later I caught an example: Palm OS. Yes. A lot of stuff is written in Asm. Why? Because *size does matter*: size == price, bigger application - more expensive it is for your customer. C was not able to compete with Asm.
But now we have hand-helds/mobiles which do run Windoz/Linux. Run them almost unmodified/unstripped. Cool. C/C++ rules. Windoz CE with VBA - dream of idiot.
Asm dead again? No-o-o-o. L3/L4 switch we are doing utilizes special micro-controller, which can be programmed in dialect of MIPS assembler. It has fast RAM for 4K of insn's and executes in real-time. I didn't saw C compiler for this - but this is really exotic example. But still example - Asm is far from being dead.
What will be next? In my short carrier I saw as Asm was dying three times. But I beleive it will reborn over and over again ;-)))
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