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| Advait Raut 2004-12-17, 3:56 pm |
| Hi,
Let's count assembly lovers.
Please, put your Name, Age, Country below
*No.* NAME AGE *COUNTRY*
001 Advait Mohan Raut 16 yrs India
002
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| Tim Roberts 2004-12-19, 3:55 pm |
| spamtrap@crayne.org (Advait Raut) wrote:
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>Let's count assembly lovers.
>Please, put your Name, Age, Country below
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>*No.* NAME AGE *COUNTRY*
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>001 Advait Mohan Raut 16 yrs India
>002
Let's not.
Remember that, unlike e-mail, every news posting you send to a Usenet
newsgroup is transmitted separately, one by one, to hundreds of thousands
of Usenet servers throughout the world. I can appreciate the rush of
seeing your name in print, but not like this.
It is safe to assume that everyone who posts on this newsgroup is a fan of
assembly language. Otherwise, we would not be here.
Now, do you have a technical question?
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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| Mark Gibson 2004-12-20, 3:55 am |
| Tim Roberts <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:
>spamtrap@crayne.org (Advait Raut) wrote:
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>Let's not.
>Remember that, unlike e-mail, every news posting you send to a Usenet
>newsgroup is transmitted separately, one by one, to hundreds of thousands
>of Usenet servers throughout the world. I can appreciate the rush of
>seeing your name in print, but not like this.
>It is safe to assume that everyone who posts on this newsgroup is a fan of
>assembly language. Otherwise, we would not be here.
>Now, do you have a technical question?
Never ASSume. I've been following this Usenet newsgroup for years. There
are several very successful .asm programmers here who write commercial .asm
code, others (such as I) who have do it on an consulting basis and liked
every second of it, those who just want to expand their programming horizons,
and a lot of students looking for help with .asm machine problems assigned
to them in college classes.
People who can program well in several .asm languages but don't know a thing
about currently hyped HLLs can learn the latter, if they have to, but the
converse is not true. I've lost count of the number of Pascal, LISP, BASIC,
and FORTRAN experts who got totally befuddled when confronted with even the
most simple .asm code on machines they were familiar with.
What is boilds down to is that you have to learn something about the
computer's architecture to write really optimal code for it in .asm. You
won't get anything but crappy code out of even the best COBOL compiler on
any machine.
Regards,
Mark
--
"Most Americans think their leaders should be held to a higher standard,
at least the penitentiary level."
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| Mark Gibson 2004-12-20, 8:55 am |
| In article <7f99f092.0412162341.7994166c@posting.google.com> you wrote:
>Hi,
>Let's count assembly lovers.
>Please, put your Name, Age, Country below
>*No.* NAME AGE *COUNTRY*
>001 Advait Mohan Raut 16 yrs India
>002 T. Mark Gibson 43 yrs USA
--
"Most Americans think their leaders should be held to a higher standard,
at least the penitentiary level."
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| Tim Roberts 2004-12-21, 3:55 am |
| Mark Gibson <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:[color=darkred]
>In article <7f99f092.0412162341.7994166c@posting.google.com> you wrote:
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Please stop this. Please.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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| Mark Gibson 2004-12-21, 8:55 am |
| Tim Roberts <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:
>Mark Gibson <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:
[color=darkred]
>Please stop this. Please.
There is a point to this thread, which the original poster may not even be aware
of... Programmers tend to "burn out" sometime between their late 20s and early 40s
I won't provide stats (because nobody who doesn't do the research themselves is
likely to belive me) but look it up on google or in computer industry journals.
The same tends to be true of most "hard" scientists as well as mathematicians, but
there are a few exceptions. I can still code in most assemblers I know (over a dozen)
better than 99+% of other general programmers I know, but I know that unless I get
a job doing so very soon, I'm going to lose that freakish edge that good .asm
programmers need to produce great software designs and .asm code.
Best regards,
Mark Gibson
--
"Most Americans think their leaders should be held to a higher standard,
at least the penitentiary level."
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