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

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jim Jackson wrote:

> > Software Engineers get taught bugger all assembler at Sheffield Uni as far
> > as I can tell, which I believe is a BAD thing.
> Not a lot in Comp Sci at Leeds Uni. either.

Plenty of asm at Comp Sci at York ;)

> > ... It is a good way of seeing
> > another perspective of your code. Makes you appreciate C++ when you have
> > it as well.
> I wouldn't go that far. Never seen anything even vaguely make me
> appreciate C++ . It's bloatware spawn of the devil :-)

What part of C++ do you think is bloated? The namespace? The output code? 

> > We only need to know Java(TM) apparently.
> 
> So rumour has it.

If you're doing embedded systems (which used to be 100% assembler),
chances are you'll be writing the device drivers & runtime in Java. If not
now, within the next three years certainly.

Cheers,

Alex.

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