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Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still Good

Posted by michael on from the atavistic dept.

nickirelan writes "Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still a Good Idea by Randall Hyde -- Randall Hyde makes his case for why learning assembly language is still relevant today. The key, says Randall, is to learn how to efficiently implement an application, and the best implementations are written by those who've mastered assembly language. Randall is the author of Write Great Code (from No Starch Press)."

7 of 667 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Debugging by dduardo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft not giving their employees access to the Window's source code eh?

  2. Re:Smaller code? We can hope... by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck, I'd settle for viruses smaller than 400K! Of all things, you'd expect a virus to be lean and mean, but I guess the latest crops were made with Visual Virus .NET or something to that effect.

  3. In what other languages by foidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    can you get away with naming a source file org.asm?
    * rim shot
    I apologize.

  4. Obvious qdb reference by revmoo · · Score: 4, Funny
    How does an assembly programmer commit suicide?
    goto cliff
    :cliff
    jmp 0xFFFFFFFF
    --
    I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
  5. Re:I disagree by Jason1729 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll take that bet...but since you choose the algorithms, I choose the architectures, and I choose a base-line PIC microcontroller. It has a 2-level deep hardware stack, Let's see your recursive javascript code run on that.

    Jason
    ProfQuotes

  6. Re:don't bother........ by DrSchlock · · Score: 5, Funny
    I have a favorite fortune on my system...

    The First Rule of Program Optimization:
    Don't do it.

    The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!):
    Don't do it yet.
  7. Re:Because you can kill any 2.6.x kernel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quiet! Here on /. we only talk about Windows exploits, and how insecure Windows is! We don't want anyone knowing that Linux has its own problems.