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Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still Good
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)."
its teh hardcore mad l33t. d00d.
goddamn that doesn't even make sense.
On a more serious note, it's also a great way to get laid. Duh.
"Take me now you l33t stud"
How are you supposed to pronounce the numbers anyway? I generally just throw them in the middle of words like "duh zero zero duh I we - sixteen - nt to the st - zero - rrr today" but my friends just give me strange looks.
My friends look at me funny no matter what I do anyway. It pisses me the fuck off. They just kind of sit there on my couch and stare at me kinda kreepy like for weeks at a time, untill the nieghbors start to complain about the smell. That's when I know its time to make soup. Mmm soup. Soup. Lots of soup. Soup.
Soup is almoast as much fun as sex, but it tastes better.
You can even take that quote and tell it to all [i]your[/i] friends and pretend you made it up yourself and have them laugh and laugh and laugh and think o what a clever guy he is, and I won't care, I'll just smile at you magnaminously and think attaboy sport i love you, almost as much as i love soup, but not quite as much as that because I don't love anything as much as i love soup except maybe sex which still isn't quite as good as soup, but is better than you. I'm a nice funny generous caring guy like that. You should get to know me. Come over some time and we'll have sex and make some soup. Itll be a great time. O yeah
The bottom line is I didn't have any friends or sex or soup untill I learned assembly and now I have all three. If thats not enough of a reason to learn than I don't know what is.
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Will get naked for karma.
"... drowning in information,
Even more annoying if you admin a webserver with an insecure cgi script that will pass stuff to the shell. Ouch!