Dude. Assembly isn't hard. Learning assembly is hard because it's *different*. Once you learn assembly for one chip another is a synch. Assembly wouldn't have source files that were too huge because then the authors of the code wouldn't know wtf they're doing. Please don't speak out against assembly if you don't already *know* it.
Assembly being hard to debug/write is just a myth. The only downside of assembly language is it's not portable and has a sharp learning curve. Asides from that assembly is not just history.
Uh.. I'd buy a playstation computer with no OS and sit down with a few mips manuals and code my own in assembly language for fun. I'm sure alot of all the unix type OSes would be ported to this computer in no time.. not to mention BEOS.. in my opinion, the software is the easy part that they should leave to the hackers whom like to sit around all day and write code religiously.
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Indeed. Asm owns.
Dude. Assembly isn't hard. Learning assembly is hard because it's *different*. Once you learn assembly for one chip another is a synch. Assembly wouldn't have source files that were too huge because then the authors of the code wouldn't know wtf they're doing. Please don't speak out against assembly if you don't already *know* it.
Assembly being hard to debug/write is just a myth. The only downside of assembly language is it's not portable and has a sharp learning curve. Asides from that assembly is not just history.
Don't talk if you don't know WTF you're talking about. ASM owns you and you're just too afraid to admit it.
ASM tutorials: http://www.jassem.8m.com
Uh.. I'd buy a playstation computer with no OS and sit down with a few mips manuals and code my own in assembly language for fun.
I'm sure alot of all the unix type OSes would be ported to this computer in no time.. not to mention BEOS.. in my opinion, the software is the easy part that they should leave to the hackers whom like to sit around all day and write code religiously.