Re: [OT] Re: nasm over gas?

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:

> 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 ;-)))
>

Yes. I once saw a ".sig" that said "FORTRAN is dead". We still
have physicists and mathematicians that wouldn't use anything
else. Use the best tool for the job. If any company gives you
the chance to learn a new tool (for free), use that chance.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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