18 Jun
2026
18 Jun
'26
10:01 a.m.
Jun 17, 2026, 10:56 by cctalk(a)classiccmp.org:
Speaking of academia: clearly any "academic"
who claims Assembler is dead is unqualified for the job. It may be true that not very
much application code is written in assembler. But it should be obvious that competence
in assembler is absolutely necessary in order to build a compiler -- in particular, a
compiler back-end.
It also calls into question the Operating Systems courses said academic's employers
offer. As
embarrassing (well, maybe un-sexy) as it would be to admit, a non-trivial amount of
platform
specific assembly language is written for OSes (usually for drivers, but there are other
bits of the
OS involved as well). Even for simulation environments like OSP.
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