4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
7:18 p.m.
> "Nobody programs in assembly any more, nor
ever will again"
> - Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley lower division undergrad CS)
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Don North wrote:
What about compiler writers, aren't they
effectively writing assembly code?
I don't know how you could write a good compiler without knowing how to
write good assembly code.
They are Lisp/Scheme fanatics. I doubt that they really know where their
compilers come from.