Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[Jim Leonard]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> 
>>I fully disagree; compilers output assembly.  As long as there are
>>compilers, there will be assembly.
> 
> Some compilers output assembly.  But many output only machine code,
> which is NOT the same thing.

The point is that humans understanding low-level machine code is and always 
will be around.  Saying that assembly is "dead" or "near death" is just 
short-sighted.  I know several people other than myself in professional 
programming positions who use assembly all the time for critical inner loops 
where the compiler either doesn't optimize correctly, or doesn't know how 
because the program drives a new piece of hardware.
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