25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
10:52 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:58:52 -0600
Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
William Donzelli wrote:
Furthermore, there are machines for which a stack-intensive environment
like C just will not do the job. What comes to mind to me are some of
the PIC and the tinier 6805 controllers, i.e. programming environments
where you might have from 32-512 bytes of Read/Write memory for ALL your
data needs. When you've got an app for a controller and the part can't
cost more than fifty cents, you code it in Assembly Language.
-Scott
Assembly language isn't dead, just REALLY
close.
I fully disagree; compilers output assembly. As long as there are
compilers, there will be assembly.