From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 17 12: 1:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D43237BC82 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 12:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA08958; Wed, 17 May 2000 12:01:22 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAHSayqr; Wed May 17 12:01:09 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08894; Wed, 17 May 2000 12:01:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200005171901.MAA08894@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: assembly vs C To: jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org (J McKitrick) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:01:20 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000509212637.A73322@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "J McKitrick" at May 09, 2000 09:26:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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