assembler [was: Re: cheers for gogo]

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

I'm going to back out as it seems that the common belief now is assembly is 
dead, as such, any arguments for it are outweighed by those against it and 
apparent alternatives. As such, I don't think I have a viewpoint I can have 
accepted.

I'll close with a brief(ish) summary: I disaggree that assembler is dead, and 
I believe there is still a use for it (if there is not, why are students on 
Electronic Engineering courses taught 8085/Z80 or 68000 assembler? Btw, I 
also did C and C++ on the course as well) I disaggree that speeds increases 
are minimal - 500 bytes of code is going to run and load a lot quicker than 
12k linked into a dynamic library. You should look at the application that is 
being designed and use what is the most practical...to discount assembler 
without properly considering it is, in my opinion, a bad thing. It's another 
tool that is available for people to use.

If noone has done so, and are interested in assembler and linux, then take a 
look at the asmutils package (can be found on freshmeat) - it contains a 
whole suite of utils that is still experimental but a definate proof of 
concept, if nothing else.

If we can aggree to disaggree, then I'll be happy with that.

Chris...


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