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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)."

3 of 667 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

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

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

  3. 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.