"Nobody programs in machine language" (was: Modern Electronics (was

From: Mike Kenzie <kenziem_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon Jun 21 21:27:37 2004

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On Monday 21 June 2004 21:47, William Donzelli wrote:
> > 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.

I picked up a copy of Machine Language for the Commodore 64 and other
Commodore computers by Jim Butterfield this weekend.





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