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Is Assembly Programming Still Relevant, Today?
intelinsight asks: "Consider the following question given the current software development needs, and also the claims of the Assembly lovers for it being a language that gives one insights of the internal working of a computer. How relevant or useful is it to learn Assembly programming language in the current era? "
Oh, what the hell. I haven't been modded flamebait in a while...
In Christian America, the Assembly programs *you*!
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Programmers shouldn't need to know about big-O notation(90% is just mathematical sophistry anyway). Programmers should simply be able to grok what algorithims are more or less efficient and in what circumstances, and mor or less why. Proving some rookies hack had was O(n!) is not a practical job requirement. You should just be able to look at his code, go "Uuuhhh!!!", and change it to something that's O(n^2), or O(nlog(n)) if you have time.
At no point is it required that you know exactly what order your algorithim is. You should just have a good feel for how good its doing. Use code profilers, etc to help with this. But in the end, just like novel writers have to read lots of other books, programmers have to read lots of code so they know what's good and what's not almost instictivly. It's a skill that can be learned.
May the Maths Be with you!
Dumbass. You have no idea what you're talking about.