> > Regardless of whether you actually USE it in the project,
> > if you do not have an understanding of machine language,
> > then you can not write a good "driver", or anything else
> > that directly addresses hardware.
> I ask then - how much code today is being written in machine language? One
> percent? A tenth of a percent? C may be a pain in the neck, but it is used
> in all sorts of places* where machine language was king.
> In any case, if we are talking about less than a percent, I think that
> would be a "specialty".
> *yes, I know about code that has to be very efficient.
You are entirely correct that very little code is written by
those with an understanding of machine language. I think that
that is part of what is wrong with so much of the MICROS~1 code.
I suspect that you have some understanding of it.
When my C students take an Assembly Language course,
there is often a visible improvement in their C code.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 21:04:00 BST