D Programmer Jobs at Sociomantic Labs

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Nov 6 02:36:23 PST 2013


On 2013-11-05 19:23, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Well yes. My point was not to force students to write *all* their code
> in assembly, but to give them some experience in writing small(!)
> assembly programs so that they get a taste of how the machine actually
> works under the hood. Once they have that down, I'd move straight on to
> a nice high-level language like D, because in 90% of the code you write,
> you don't *need* the kind of performance direct assembly coding gives
> you.

Some times you need assembly, not for performance, but because it gives 
you access to hardware you don't have access to otherwise. But that will 
most likely be a very small part of your code as well.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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