Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:01:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org (J McKitrick) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: assembly vs C Message-ID: <200005171901.MAA08894@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000509212637.A73322@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "J McKitrick" at May 09, 2000 09:26:37 PM
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> I've heard some debates recently, mostly by 'old-school' hackers from the > C64 days who are calling for a return to machine language. They claim that > CPU speed, memory size, and HD space will begin to plateau soon, and that ML > would bring a much needed return to efficiency and clean coding. Actually doing all coding in assembly would be a bad idea. Forcing all programmers to learn assembly so that their compiler is not just a "black box" would undoubtedly increase code quality. I kind of doubt that the VM system could be totally written in C; for a full understanding of software, including FreeBSD, there is also almost an assembly language learning requirement. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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