25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
10:38 p.m.
Jim wrote:
The point is that humans understanding low-level
machine code is and
always will be around.
I'm not sure I buy that either. Hundreds of years from now (or after
the singularity), when most machines are designed by other machines with
no human intervention other than stating the requirements, will there be
anyone who understands the lowest level of how they work? Will they even
be simple enough that it's possible to understand them the way we can
understand a microprocessor today?
But I agree with your point that assembly language is not dead, or
even "nearly dead". Though it certainly seems to be much less used
relative to other languages than it was even just ten years ago.
Eric