Re: assembler [was: Re: cheers for gogo]

["Robert Speed" <nospam [at] Viclabs.co.uk>]

There's quite a bit of RISC-OS written directly in ARM.
In fact, there's quite a number of (ex) Acorn developers who'll quite 
happily code in it - but then as RISC, there's only a handful of 
instructions to learn.
Fine - large data sets can be a bit of a pig, but if you properly think 
things out, it's fine.
That's my 2p...

> > 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?
Yep - As part of my degree (Software Engineering) we were taught 
68000 too. And that was a close as '97 - I understand they still 
teach the module.



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